...is if Freenet can be operated from behind a firewall, since if not, it is not of use for me, or atleast I will not be able to use it. Anyway It'd be nice if it had some sort of proxy capabilities.
'Linux the product', the new addition to the marketing buzz and hype. Linux will never be the "product" you want it to be unless you are willing to participate its goals. The main point in the whole Linux movement was and still is "World Domination" as Linus quite so humbly told us in his interviews. It has and never will have anything to do with TCO, profits, market share or whatever _you'd_ want it to, because it never was meant to.
To make Linux more appealing is to take part in its success, not to undervalue what it has to offer, Freedom.
Wow! That's probably the best switcher story yet, I'm gonna send the link to so many friends of mine;)... NOT, actually, It's our little secret now, no one has to know about it okay?:)
So, let me ask then, if a phone for instance could run Java, Shockwave (or whatever similar multimedia format), html, xml etc. etc. When all the computers on the market do that already and even they are suspectable to different sorts of security hazards. I believe you would be fool to run any non trusted stuff anyway so what's the big deal then? If the OS could be re-installed on the phone perhaps it would be the same if the runtime code was trusted or not.
But here in Finland, that sort of housing is expensive as hell. Things here are badly awry.
All your points are valid, only if someone would hear them. There are people who'd be in almost critical need for housing like that and what they almost certainly lack is the money to invest on such houses.
Atopia and allergy are a bad company... Not to say there wouldn't be more worse diseases. These are just the ones I have been blessed with...
Haven't you heard, using sugar doesn't cause diabetes. Diabetes is mostly inherited genetically, and all the same reasons apply than in all the modern era's modern diseases like allergies for example. Too healthy lifestyle can cause illnesses too you know. We live in an artificial, clinical and polluted world. Sugar isn't the cause.
Actually... care to check whether your dad's hands are shaking while trying to hold 'em still?
I've noticed those who quaff the stuff by abt. liter per day have the most shaky hands I've ever seen..
And no, none of them smoke tobacco. And yes, I know it isn't known to be harmful nor harmless, whether it is or not is not the issue, it has no nutritional value and has very poor taste, doesn't taste sweet but bitter. If I don't know what it is then I am not going to risk my health using it, you shouldn't either. It just isn't proven to be anything yet.
There is actually something I heard about it though that should be considered though. Usually when eating food rich with sugar your body starts to develope insulin to burn the glucoses from your blood and transform them in to more useful forms of energy for your body to use up. Now if you fool your system by giving it aspartame instead it again starts to develope insulin to break up the sugar. But what happens when there is no sugar to burn? As we know aspartame doesn't contain glucose.. what silly things might happen in our bodies then? This is one of the reasons I prefer to use real sugar and not something I am not sure of.
It might be so that there is a psychological element as well. Though I can only speak for myself since my experiences differ only in the way that I am an atopic and suffer from different sorts of rash and skin diseases cronically. And in my perspective it is *all* due "environmental" reasons. Every time the humidity lowers or rises, temperature fuxuates or then just the air pressure changes radically my skin starts to react.
The only solution in my case would be to move to the mediterranean or the tropic...
The "Shelter" got all my sympathies, I wonder, are there others who feel the same way? Any fellow atopics among the geeks here?:)
Businesses charge what gets them the most profit. If thefts go up, they increase costs to cover the lost sales
As businesses go on covering their 'lost' sales they further provoke piracy since people do not find it smart to buy something they can get for free or at least ten times cheaper. I wonder if pirates are doing the exact same thing and raise prices since it is fairly hard for the Joe Average to get a pirated copy free today unless from p2p services which are mostly slow and unreliable.
and if thefts drop and sales drop faster, they lower prices to get the profit margin back.
Umm, let me see, is it even possible to tell the thefts (since piracy really can't be dealt as a theft) have dropped?
Lowering prices is not likely to happen because record studios are too greedy to admit the sales have dropped because and only because of too high prices.
I live in Europe too, and am pretty disturbed due the recent (or should I say steady and steep) rise of fuel prices. I have a car with a diesel engine and have to pay unbelievably big taxes too. With prices over abt. 1 euro per litre I think it just isn't even fair to further tax the darned thing.
And since here in Finland we also pay the same diesel taxes wether we used diesel or electricity I just can not understand how haven't people retaliated already. We need demonstrations, all over the world, the prices are too high, and as the availability of petrol becomes uncertain it'd be better to find other means of fueling up whether they were methane, buthane, natural gas, hydrogen, electricity or all of them they are already urgently needed. Not only because they are more energy efficient or cheaper, they also pollute less.
So here's my idea and proposition for all and everyone (anyone?) to get your hands on some energy efficient vehicles designs and specs, any sort of info ppl can get, learn, redesign and redistribute it to the public. Let's join an effort to build THE vehicle of the future, the 'GNUbile' and release it under the GPL so that anyone can recreate the fruits of our labour. And not just GM or Ford.
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I for one don't know any 13 year old who uses Linux... all My friends have already turned over 20 some time ago, including those who use Linux.
I myself found Linux when I was 16 so, I guess most of my friends were also over 13 in 1993...
This is just like in our school where the official "OS" of choice is Windows XP. With it's support for multi user, active directory whaddawhadda doo doo and other shit it still happens to be what it always has been; Windows. I bet you guys aren't surprised if I tell you that when I login to a computer, the UI is different than on the previous machine. I can not keep personalized settings in my _own_ homedir, they usually (read: always) get sprinkled all over the workstations' hard drives.
The same reasons enable people to install all kinds of weird stuff on these computers' hdd's, like games, porno movies and stuff like that. And it doesn't take long till the hd is filled with crap and is unusable again. The worst part is you can't erase other peoples' installations or downloads from the "C:\" -drive where all of the stuff goes.
I thought when they said it'd be "easy" it'd really be easy even for the administrators, or then they just are more stupid than I thought.
So, what it sounds like is they really are trying to commercialize Linux and kill the two only good distros out there, Debian and Slackware? Where's the donations?
If I swap files, how can you say that is theft? Or even a copyright infringement? What theft is there if one copies or swaps data? Someone patented and copyrighted binary (those ones and zeroes) already?
I'll comment on just one part here..
I believe there is enough compensation in the though that I know I like what I have created. I do it for my own pleasure. If I'd compose a great song, I'd be compensated enough if I heard a radio dj play it on air, or if someone came to me and told me how good (s)he thinks the piece is. If someone wanted to pay me, good, that's perfectly all right, but what I don't want to do is abuse my copyright ownership by locking my work up in any way.
If someone wanted to use some of my tricks or anything I've used on any of my songs in theirs I'd be glad they did so. If it was that good it's good to know it continues to live in music of others too.
If I was to make a gradient (damn, a gradient??) someone liked and found it useful I wouldn't oppose them using it in their work. Why re-invent the weel?
- Voice of Ambience -
Things can always be done better. Does it make one a pirate if he sees the point in this?
Am I not an artist if I choose to "give" my art to the people to use and learn from?
Does it make me somehow a bad artist if I don't want to get paid for my stuff?
What the heck do you mean by piracy anyway? All the great artists have been copied/plagiarized and most of the great artists have done it themselves. We can even check that out if you like, try classical composers, try painters, try modern musicians... The difference is, nowadays we have big corporations who think they are doing losses because of piracy. I believe the artists aren't often even asked about their opinion in this or then they have been lied to to make them think badly about "piracy".
Are you an artist? Do you want people to enjoy your work, or do you want to cash in by stupidity?
At the time the BBS-systems ruled and the Internet was still quite new in kid Finland there was a musical revolution on the way, ppl were very much into electronic music such as ambient, techno, jungle, gabber and others. I used to contribute my music (*.mod, *.s3m, *.xm) to the ambient scene. I remember it was quite usual to see greetings and title info in the songs sample lists, and not even unusual if ppl asked and even provoked others to listen and to rip, remix and re-use materials from their own songs.
I was one of those who was *really* flattered by friends making party-lp's or musicdisks with my music on them. (which was of course quite quiet since I wasn't _that_good_ a musician but still...)
(Abiword) Yes, to this day it is still riddled with bugs and it has been in development for almost three years now.
You don't know about the bugs on Office XP, since they are generally not yelled about in a crowded room. And how long has MS Office been in developement? I believe the next beta is coming out soon.
The nice thing about windows is that it is a standardized product.
There is no such thing as a Microsoft standard unless it is the "Crippling Standard". MS is notorious in breaking up standards by making up new features noone will use.
Every Windows book will tell you how to do something in the exact same way.
But none of them tell you what has really happened when an Exception 0E or a BSOD occurs, nor do they provide a fix for such situation.
Windows has some cool features like DirectX, multimedia codecs and the like.
And Linux doesn't have multimedia abilities or 3d capabilities? Guess again... What was it SGI introduced to the computing world? Was it perhaps OpenGL?
mplayer and xmms for video and sound... And I'd like to add I find Linux as an intriguing platform for those who like composing music DJ'ing or synthesizing and everything between. Such programs can be found on Linux too.
Even CAD solutions can be found.
Linux is great for developing and as a server.
OK, I admit Linux is neat for servers, but I'd like to add I use it as a desktop and find nothing wrong with it. I Can! (Magic words)
BSD for servers btw.
This of course also means that you need to upgrade a whole schlew of other applications because they rely on the older libraries. So when you look at it, it's not really an application upgrade, it's a system upgrade.
Yes, it can be considered as a problem, but thenagain on the other hand you have extremely bloated programs each created time and time again consuming not only hd space but system memory, then there is the problem of installing new libraries and/or programs due dependencies.
Some of us can live with cruft or bloat, I don't have the resources to buy myself new hd's, ram or processors all the time. I do not need GHz hw to run my software. My software runs on my 486 as well as it does on my K6-III, a bit slower but nevertheless the reliability of the software remains. I wonder what people'd say if they'd have to use my "fastest" computer with a Windows XP as opposed to Linux. (400MHz/256Mb) Wait, let's tumb the computer down and take 192 megs off. Now, let's run XP on 64Mb...
How's OSX with one of the older PPC's with 233MHz and 64megs of ram?
For a simple comparing basis, the best ever desktop OS isn't OSX, it is something that can run a fancy windowed desktop under 4Mb with no slowdowns. (Reminds of something in the early 90's?)
Gnome (Nautilus in particular) runs like a sick pig on older hardware.
Like how much older hardware? Something older than my hardware?
I hate the fact that Linux takes forever to boot.
Ever seen w2k boot? Then you will know how long is "forever".
I have never read a Linux document or help file that told me how to fix a problem or do something in a step-by-step fashion and have it work.
So we came back to the subject of "Exception 0E" and "BSOD". Where can I find a HOW-TO to fix those?
BeOS might be nice, haven't seen it in action, though I don't know if I would be interested enough to actually install it.
If the open source community really wants a free desktop, why not start from scratch?
Why reinvent something we already have? We have an Open Source desktop (in fact we have many). Why bother?
I believe the guy was talking about different selection of software for different people, not about where to start them from or how many to start them and run similarly.
Simple case: I use system utilities and my spouse does not, is it cool to just leave the system utilities for her to trample into all the time? If she likes her apps list to contain 'this and that', and I prefer something else should the program/apps list be the same for the both of us?
The same thing irritates me on Windows UI too, since the program listing 'behind' the Start button always lists the same programs even if they cannot all be used by others than the systems administrator. Why the hell are the appstart options even left lying in the lists for those who do not need or have not privileges to use them?
And this had nothing to do with many programs running similarly. Nor did it have anything to do with starting programs from the shell, finder or terminal and since I do not use docks anymore (found them irritating, I simply click right mouse button for the apps list) It doesn't even have to do with a dock applet either...
I hate comments like this, because "computer gurus" is a loaded term.
Me too, but not because it's a "loaded" term, but because I have been on many occations mistaken as one. I am not a guru and I use systems like Linux and BSD. I am not particularly interested in OSX though it has been said pretty and stuff. To me it is just a bit too crufty.
That's the kind of elitist attitude that perpetuates the horrible reputation that Linux users have garnered.
In perspective I feel some of those better funded are the ones who are "elitists" but who cares about that anyway? Linux users have a bad reputation? I wonder, you've been talking to the wrong people... I have found Linux community very helpful and kind.
About the newbie status you mentioned, I understand your feelings, but nevertheless I have never been mistook as a newbie although; I use a GUI also, ok, I have objections to Microsoft and Apple (and partly to their OS'es too but that's only because of their business politics and poor constitution), I find a 486/80 reasonably fast for almost any kind of tinkering and stuff and a 400MHz K6-III suitable for almost everything nowaday people use their computer for. I also don't have an obsession for graphics adapters. I am still not considered as a newbie.
I really think those who think in GHz's are the newbies...
The main AFAIK problem for big corporations like MS is the GPL, that prohibits the use of the original Open Source code in closed AND commercial software. It doesn't prohibit the use in any other instances.
I assume, no I Believe this kind of a licensing policy is there to ensure the Freedom to use, learn, copy and distribute the source code "as is" or whenever a change (a bug fix, new features etc.) is issued, the original coder will benefit from the copyleft by receiving the possible enhancements from the other Open Source coder.
The whole thing with Free Software is to provide the freedom of choice, not to take it away. And the GPL is especially designed to do just that, to keep the Source Code Free.
As what becomes of the freedom of the user, it stays the same, no agreements to EULA's, or any other crap, and all the rights will remain to the user.
It is also possible to create a closed, commercial application (or whatever program) on Linux and with the tools provided by FSF/GNU and sell it for a profit. (These are my assumptions, maybe I am wrong, but then there are commercial platforms to generate commercial code too, even on Linux.) So there is NO freedom lost after all.
Slashdot Mirror
...is if Freenet can be operated from behind a firewall, since if not, it is not of use for me, or atleast I will not be able to use it. Anyway It'd be nice if it had some sort of proxy capabilities.
- Voice of Ambience -
'Linux the product', the new addition to the marketing buzz and hype. Linux will never be the "product" you want it to be unless you are willing to participate its goals. The main point in the whole Linux movement was and still is "World Domination" as Linus quite so humbly told us in his interviews. It has and never will have anything to do with TCO, profits, market share or whatever _you'd_ want it to, because it never was meant to.
To make Linux more appealing is to take part in its success, not to undervalue what it has to offer, Freedom.
- Voice of Ambience -
Wow! That's probably the best switcher story yet, I'm gonna send the link to so many friends of mine
- Voice of Ambience -
So, let me ask then, if a phone for instance could run Java, Shockwave (or whatever similar multimedia format), html, xml etc. etc. When all the computers on the market do that already and even they are suspectable to different sorts of security hazards. I believe you would be fool to run any non trusted stuff anyway so what's the big deal then? If the OS could be re-installed on the phone perhaps it would be the same if the runtime code was trusted or not.
- Voice of Ambience -
But here in Finland, that sort of housing is expensive as hell. Things here are badly awry.
All your points are valid, only if someone would hear them. There are people who'd be in almost critical need for housing like that and what they almost certainly lack is the money to invest on such houses.
Atopia and allergy are a bad company... Not to say there wouldn't be more worse diseases. These are just the ones I have been blessed with...
- Voice of Ambience -
Only in USA.
The 'jury' will decide on sugar causing diabetes?
Haven't you heard, using sugar doesn't cause diabetes. Diabetes is mostly inherited genetically, and all the same reasons apply than in all the modern era's modern diseases like allergies for example. Too healthy lifestyle can cause illnesses too you know. We live in an artificial, clinical and polluted world. Sugar isn't the cause.
- Voice of Ambience -
I wonder why someone has to drink that much soft drinks per day... heard of milk? ..water?
- Voice of Ambience -
Actually... care to check whether your dad's hands are shaking while trying to hold 'em still?
I've noticed those who quaff the stuff by abt. liter per day have the most shaky hands I've ever seen..
And no, none of them smoke tobacco.
And yes, I know it isn't known to be harmful nor harmless, whether it is or not is not the issue, it has no nutritional value and has very poor taste, doesn't taste sweet but bitter. If I don't know what it is then I am not going to risk my health using it, you shouldn't either. It just isn't proven to be anything yet.
There is actually something I heard about it though that should be considered though. Usually when eating food rich with sugar your body starts to develope insulin to burn the glucoses from your blood and transform them in to more useful forms of energy for your body to use up. Now if you fool your system by giving it aspartame instead it again starts to develope insulin to break up the sugar. But what happens when there is no sugar to burn? As we know aspartame doesn't contain glucose.. what silly things might happen in our bodies then? This is one of the reasons I prefer to use real sugar and not something I am not sure of.
- Voice of Ambience -
It might be so that there is a psychological element as well. Though I can only speak for myself since my experiences differ only in the way that I am an atopic and suffer from different sorts of rash and skin diseases cronically. And in my perspective it is *all* due "environmental" reasons. Every time the humidity lowers or rises, temperature fuxuates or then just the air pressure changes radically my skin starts to react.
:)
The only solution in my case would be to move to the mediterranean or the tropic...
The "Shelter" got all my sympathies, I wonder, are there others who feel the same way? Any fellow atopics among the geeks here?
- Voice of Ambience -
As businesses go on covering their 'lost' sales they further provoke piracy since people do not find it smart to buy something they can get for free or at least ten times cheaper. I wonder if pirates are doing the exact same thing and raise prices since it is fairly hard for the Joe Average to get a pirated copy free today unless from p2p services which are mostly slow and unreliable.
Umm, let me see, is it even possible to tell the thefts (since piracy really can't be dealt as a theft) have dropped?
Lowering prices is not likely to happen because record studios are too greedy to admit the sales have dropped because and only because of too high prices.
- Voice of Ambience -
I live in Europe too, and am pretty disturbed due the recent (or should I say steady and steep) rise of fuel prices. I have a car with a diesel engine and have to pay unbelievably big taxes too. With prices over abt. 1 euro per litre I think it just isn't even fair to further tax the darned thing.
And since here in Finland we also pay the same diesel taxes wether we used diesel or electricity I just can not understand how haven't people retaliated already. We need demonstrations, all over the world, the prices are too high, and as the availability of petrol becomes uncertain it'd be better to find other means of fueling up whether they were methane, buthane, natural gas, hydrogen, electricity or all of them they are already urgently needed. Not only because they are more energy efficient or cheaper, they also pollute less.
So here's my idea and proposition for all and everyone (anyone?) to get your hands on some energy efficient vehicles designs and specs, any sort of info ppl can get, learn, redesign and redistribute it to the public. Let's join an effort to build THE vehicle of the future, the 'GNUbile' and release it under the GPL so that anyone can recreate the fruits of our labour. And not just GM or Ford.
- Voice of Ambience -
I for one don't know any 13 year old who uses Linux... all My friends have already turned over 20 some time ago, including those who use Linux.
I myself found Linux when I was 16 so, I guess most of my friends were also over 13 in 1993...
- Voice of Ambience -
This is just like in our school where the official "OS" of choice is Windows XP. With it's support for multi user, active directory whaddawhadda doo doo and other shit it still happens to be what it always has been; Windows. I bet you guys aren't surprised if I tell you that when I login to a computer, the UI is different than on the previous machine. I can not keep personalized settings in my _own_ homedir, they usually (read: always) get sprinkled all over the workstations' hard drives.
The same reasons enable people to install all kinds of weird stuff on these computers' hdd's, like games, porno movies and stuff like that. And it doesn't take long till the hd is filled with crap and is unusable again. The worst part is you can't erase other peoples' installations or downloads from the "C:\" -drive where all of the stuff goes.
I thought when they said it'd be "easy" it'd really be easy even for the administrators, or then they just are more stupid than I thought.
- Voice of Ambience -
So, what it sounds like is they really are trying to commercialize Linux and kill the two only good distros out there, Debian and Slackware? Where's the donations?
Money comes to money.
- Voice of Ambience -
Makes me wonder why US is so afraid of terrorism...
I believe I am finally beginning to understand the motives driving the middle east terrorists to attack US of A.
- Voice of Ambience -
If I swap files, how can you say that is theft? Or even a copyright infringement? What theft is there if one copies or swaps data? Someone patented and copyrighted binary (those ones and zeroes) already?
- Voice of Ambience -
"IS there Anyone we can sue?? We are in a desperate need of cash? Please sir, can we sue you for patent/copyright infringements?"
- Voice of Ambience -
I'll comment on just one part here.. I believe there is enough compensation in the though that I know I like what I have created. I do it for my own pleasure. If I'd compose a great song, I'd be compensated enough if I heard a radio dj play it on air, or if someone came to me and told me how good (s)he thinks the piece is. If someone wanted to pay me, good, that's perfectly all right, but what I don't want to do is abuse my copyright ownership by locking my work up in any way. If someone wanted to use some of my tricks or anything I've used on any of my songs in theirs I'd be glad they did so. If it was that good it's good to know it continues to live in music of others too. If I was to make a gradient (damn, a gradient??) someone liked and found it useful I wouldn't oppose them using it in their work. Why re-invent the weel? - Voice of Ambience -
Things can always be done better. Does it make one a pirate if he sees the point in this?
Am I not an artist if I choose to "give" my art to the people to use and learn from?
Does it make me somehow a bad artist if I don't want to get paid for my stuff?
What the heck do you mean by piracy anyway? All the great artists have been copied/plagiarized and most of the great artists have done it themselves. We can even check that out if you like, try classical composers, try painters, try modern musicians... The difference is, nowadays we have big corporations who think they are doing losses because of piracy. I believe the artists aren't often even asked about their opinion in this or then they have been lied to to make them think badly about "piracy".
Are you an artist? Do you want people to enjoy your work, or do you want to cash in by stupidity?
- Voice of Ambience -
I am going to fight hard against it in Finland. as I'm writing an essee about these stupid laws anyway...
Don't agree to such stupidity wherever you live!
- Voice of Ambience -
At the time the BBS-systems ruled and the Internet was still quite new in kid Finland there was a musical revolution on the way, ppl were very much into electronic music such as ambient, techno, jungle, gabber and others. I used to contribute my music (*.mod, *.s3m, *.xm) to the ambient scene. I remember it was quite usual to see greetings and title info in the songs sample lists, and not even unusual if ppl asked and even provoked others to listen and to rip, remix and re-use materials from their own songs.
I was one of those who was *really* flattered by friends making party-lp's or musicdisks with my music on them. (which was of course quite quiet since I wasn't _that_good_ a musician but still...)
- Voice of Ambience -
(Abiword)
Yes, to this day it is still riddled with bugs and it has been in development for almost three years now.
You don't know about the bugs on Office XP, since they are generally not yelled about in a crowded room. And how long has MS Office been in developement? I believe the next beta is coming out soon.
The nice thing about windows is that it is a standardized product.
There is no such thing as a Microsoft standard unless it is the "Crippling Standard". MS is notorious in breaking up standards by making up new features noone will use.
Every Windows book will tell you how to do something in the exact same way.
But none of them tell you what has really happened when an Exception 0E or a BSOD occurs, nor do they provide a fix for such situation.
Windows has some cool features like DirectX, multimedia codecs and the like.
And Linux doesn't have multimedia abilities or 3d capabilities? Guess again... What was it SGI introduced to the computing world? Was it perhaps OpenGL?
mplayer and xmms for video and sound... And I'd like to add I find Linux as an intriguing platform for those who like composing music DJ'ing or synthesizing and everything between. Such programs can be found on Linux too.
Even CAD solutions can be found.
Linux is great for developing and as a server.
OK, I admit Linux is neat for servers, but I'd like to add I use it as a desktop and find nothing wrong with it. I Can! (Magic words)
BSD for servers btw.
This of course also means that you need to upgrade a whole schlew of other applications because they rely on the older libraries. So when you look at it, it's not really an application upgrade, it's a system upgrade.
Yes, it can be considered as a problem, but thenagain on the other hand you have extremely bloated programs each created time and time again consuming not only hd space but system memory, then there is the problem of installing new libraries and/or programs due dependencies.
Some of us can live with cruft or bloat, I don't have the resources to buy myself new hd's, ram or processors all the time. I do not need GHz hw to run my software. My software runs on my 486 as well as it does on my K6-III, a bit slower but nevertheless the reliability of the software remains. I wonder what people'd say if they'd have to use my "fastest" computer with a Windows XP as opposed to Linux. (400MHz/256Mb) Wait, let's tumb the computer down and take 192 megs off. Now, let's run XP on 64Mb...
How's OSX with one of the older PPC's with 233MHz and 64megs of ram?
For a simple comparing basis, the best ever desktop OS isn't OSX, it is something that can run a fancy windowed desktop under 4Mb with no slowdowns. (Reminds of something in the early 90's?)
Gnome (Nautilus in particular) runs like a sick pig on older hardware.
Like how much older hardware? Something older than my hardware?
I hate the fact that Linux takes forever to boot.
Ever seen w2k boot? Then you will know how long is "forever".
I have never read a Linux document or help file that told me how to fix a problem or do something in a step-by-step fashion and have it work.
So we came back to the subject of "Exception 0E" and "BSOD". Where can I find a HOW-TO to fix those?
BeOS might be nice, haven't seen it in action, though I don't know if I would be interested enough to actually install it.
If the open source community really wants a free desktop, why not start from scratch?
Why reinvent something we already have? We have an Open Source desktop (in fact we have many). Why bother?
- Voice of Ambience -
I believe the guy was talking about different selection of software for different people, not about where to start them from or how many to start them and run similarly.
Simple case: I use system utilities and my spouse does not, is it cool to just leave the system utilities for her to trample into all the time? If she likes her apps list to contain 'this and that', and I prefer something else should the program/apps list be the same for the both of us?
The same thing irritates me on Windows UI too, since the program listing 'behind' the Start button always lists the same programs even if they cannot all be used by others than the systems administrator. Why the hell are the appstart options even left lying in the lists for those who do not need or have not privileges to use them?
And this had nothing to do with many programs running similarly. Nor did it have anything to do with starting programs from the shell, finder or terminal and since I do not use docks anymore (found them irritating, I simply click right mouse button for the apps list) It doesn't even have to do with a dock applet either...
Just letting the steam out...
- Voice of Ambience -
I hate comments like this, because "computer gurus" is a loaded term.
Me too, but not because it's a "loaded" term, but because I have been on many occations mistaken as one. I am not a guru and I use systems like Linux and BSD. I am not particularly interested in OSX though it has been said pretty and stuff. To me it is just a bit too crufty.
That's the kind of elitist attitude that perpetuates the horrible reputation that Linux users have garnered.
In perspective I feel some of those better funded are the ones who are "elitists" but who cares about that anyway? Linux users have a bad reputation? I wonder, you've been talking to the wrong people... I have found Linux community very helpful and kind.
About the newbie status you mentioned, I understand your feelings, but nevertheless I have never been mistook as a newbie although; I use a GUI also, ok, I have objections to Microsoft and Apple (and partly to their OS'es too but that's only because of their business politics and poor constitution), I find a 486/80 reasonably fast for almost any kind of tinkering and stuff and a 400MHz K6-III suitable for almost everything nowaday people use their computer for. I also don't have an obsession for graphics adapters. I am still not considered as a newbie.
I really think those who think in GHz's are the newbies...
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...for the people of course!
The main AFAIK problem for big corporations like MS is the GPL, that prohibits the use of the original Open Source code in closed AND commercial software. It doesn't prohibit the use in any other instances.
I assume, no I Believe this kind of a licensing policy is there to ensure the Freedom to use, learn, copy and distribute the source code "as is" or whenever a change (a bug fix, new features etc.) is issued, the original coder will benefit from the copyleft by receiving the possible enhancements from the other Open Source coder.
The whole thing with Free Software is to provide the freedom of choice, not to take it away. And the GPL is especially designed to do just that, to keep the Source Code Free.
As what becomes of the freedom of the user, it stays the same, no agreements to EULA's, or any other crap, and all the rights will remain to the user.
It is also possible to create a closed, commercial application (or whatever program) on Linux and with the tools provided by FSF/GNU and sell it for a profit. (These are my assumptions, maybe I am wrong, but then there are commercial platforms to generate commercial code too, even on Linux.) So there is NO freedom lost after all.
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