I mostly agree with you, but I happen to like black backgrounds. My eyes have always preferred the black backgrounds common in command-line OSs (DOS, BSD, Linux, etc.) to the white backgrounds common in windowing environments (Windows, X, MacOS, etc.).
I thought the point was that the Linux development style was supposed to be better than the Microsoft development style. This "we say it works but try it a while to see, there's always a few bugs" approach is one of the hallmarks of Microsoft software that I would hope to avoid. Oh well.
Sure, the development is nice, but having a reliable news site is even more nice. Use the tools to get it done. If Linux is stable, use it. If it continues to be as unstable as recently, use Free/Net/OpenBSD or something else more stable. VMS, anyone?
Well, that doesn't improve things. You merely shift the focus from the quality of the Linux kernel to the quality of other Free Software. MSSQL is not nearly as buggy as MySQL is.
That said, I'm still in favor of Free Software. I just think all these claims that Free Software development leads to bug-free software (or even less buggy software) are unfounded.
Well, if that is the case, then things should be cleared up. 2.2.8 should *not* be named a "stable" kernel when it comes out. It should be considered a development kernel (hence mission-critical systems are warned not to use it) until it's out for a few weeks with no problems, then upgraded to "stable" status.
I guess this puts to rest all the arguments of those people who were saying that it's slashdot's setup, not the Linux kernel, that was causing the problem. Apparently it was a bug in the kernel itself. A known bug, but a bug nonetheless, and a serious one that caused the site to lose uptime at that.
I disagree. Anakin's part was really well acted, IMHO. He is supposed to act like a kid, since he is a kid. An incredibly intelligent kid in whom the Force is strong, but still a kid nonetheless.
As for being nice, he is supposed to. He is a kind, selfless, generous person, who later becomes seduced to the dark side. In Episode I, he is not Darth Vader, and he is not evil. Obi-Wan mentions this in one of the other movies (Return of the Jedi, IIRC).
I'm aware that distribution of ROM images of copyrighted ROMs is illegal. I was just pointing out that their statement that "all ROMs are illegal" is incorrect. "All illegal ROMs are illegal" is really the only statement you can make about this. It depends on the copyright and licensing status of each individual ROM.
It took me 2 days to install and configure NT/95, due to lack of support for my SCSI Adapter (I rally don't know what's wrong with those NT drivers). I cannot count the number of reboots, reinstall this and that, reboot, shutdown on windows protection erros bla bla bla.
Well, if you have unsupported hardware on win95, it won't work well. The same goes for Linux. The problem is that there's more unsupported or not-very-well-supported hardware for Linux than for Windows, which is why Linux is harder to install for most of us. That, and Windows does a better job (usually) of detecting and picking decent default configurations.
P.S. Please, you don't have to reboot to set X, the network, you modem, you sound card, Linux isn't windows. Just run on level 3, if X fail to start properly, CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, that should do it. Next time, by RedHat or OpenLinux, must simple for newbies like US.
I didn't reboot in X. I rebooted in XF86Setup, because I didn't know the exact specs for my video card, and apparently I picked settings that didn't work. That caused my display to get really messed up, and I had no idea how to fix it. ctrl+alt+backspace didn't work, since I was in XF86Setup, not X itself.
I ended up having to reboot more times for Linux (around 4 or 5) than for Windows (once).
Just a minor note - Z-Shell isn't necessary anymore. The Z-Shell was necessary to do asm programming on the TI-85, which didn't support it, but the TI-86 supports asm programs natively, without any shells or workarounds.
Nintendo's FAQ says: Are all ROMS on the Internet Illegal? Yes. All ROMs available on the Internet are unauthorized and infringing copies of copyrighted works
That's incorrect. I have several legal ROMs, such as the pong demo written for the n64, and several original n64 and snes games available either as freeware or public domain software. These ROMs are not illegal.
If they do not agree with the actions the RIAA is taking, why do they not leave the RIAA? The RIAA does what its members want it to do. I blame the members for not withdrawing from this organization.
Of course, I'm not completely boycotting RIAA labels, just mostly. In the last year, I've bought around 40 CDs, of which 5 have been from labels who are members of the RIAA. The other 35 came from independent record labels.
Yeah, I agree, which is why Linux sucks. It has all these "automatic programs" running everything for you, which "fucks shit up." If you want disk access, do it yourself. No need for fancy ext2fs garbage. And what's with this GIMP thing. What's wrong with a hex editor?
Hmm, that wasn't quite my experience. I was using Slackware.
It went more like the following:
1) Boot to Windows, put the CD in drive (the CD is not bootable itself). 2) Find the proper disk image to make a boot disk with (i needed sbpcd.i to use my non-IDE CD-ROM drive. Use fat32.i if you want to read a fat32 drive. If you want both, I guess you're out of luck). 3) Make a boot disk using the disk images on the CD and the included-on-the-CD DOS boot-disk-making program 4) reboot with the disk 5) wait about 20 minutes for it to find my non-IDE CD-ROM drive. 6) Pop up a really bad install program. 7) wander through options, having no idea (with no explanations being offered) of what exactly a "D" package or a "X" package is. 8) Pick some packages and install 9) some un-explained configuration questions come up. I have no idea what to answer for most of them, so I guess. Some stuff works. 10) Realize I didn't install the "X" package, so go back and do that. 11) Try to run X. It won't start. 12) Reboot to win95, ask for help on IRC, am told to run XF86Setup. Run it. 13) It does not detect my video card. Instead I have to mess with tons of options. 14) Reboot two or three times when the display becomes irreversibly messed up. 15) Finally get it working. startx. 16) Ok, now what? Most of the items in fvwm95's psuedo-start-menu won't run, saying I haven't installed them (so why is the menu item there then?). Mess with the non-intuitive file manager, and try to get cut-and-paste working. 17) Try to get modem working. 18) Give up, try to get printer working. 19) Reboot to win95, use that instead.
Well, the point is that RedHat should've recognized the CD. If Windows recognizes his CD drive and RedHat does not, Windows is working and RedHat isn't, so of course he will prefer Windows.
Interesting. I've had the exact opposite experience. I've installed win95 twice, once on an empty box and once a reinstall over a messed-up install of it. Both went extremely smoothly and I was up and running within 30 minutes, with my network card, modem, video card, printer, etc., all configured.
Then I installed Slackware (3.0). After messing with some disk images, I managed to get a boot disk to support my non-IDE cdrom drive (using the sbpcd.i disk image). The boot-up took about 20 minutes as it scanned (really slowly) various addresses (or something, it didn't explain what it was doing, just took a while) to find the CD-ROM drive. After it found it, the install went relatively smoothly, except for the fact that all the packages were just listed by a single letter, with no explanations, and being a Linux novice, "D" did not mean anything to me.
Then came the X setup. I played around with XF86Setup for about an hour, rebooting two or three times in the process. Finally I got a working 640x480 8-bit color X server running. After a day or so i managed to get 800x600 16-bit color working. And I never did get my printer set up.
It's not just their provider, though the provider is partially to blame. For hours at a time the network slashdot is on will be down (the provider's fault). However, sometimes the network will be up, and pings will get through to slashdot, but the box is crashed one way or another, and not accepting port 80 connections. Some Apache, MySQL, or mod_perl bug, or a combination of them.
I never said I don't appreciate Rob's work, or don't like slashdot. I was merely correcting the previous poster's erroneous statement that slashdot is a non-profit endeavor, since it does indeed make money.
Caldera were suing Microsoft for allegedly trying to kill off DR-DOS. Windows 3.x ran perfectly fine over DR-DOS, as well as over MS-DOS, and this apparently annoyed Microsoft, so Windows 95 has some incompatibilities allegedly deliberately introduced to keep DR-DOS from working (no, despite what Microsoft says, win95 is not a completely independent OS, it's still built on top of DOS).
BTW, all these links are from old slashdot articles (some from September 1998, a few from 1999). Search for "caldera suit" on/. and you'll find some more.
Slashdot Mirror
I mostly agree with you, but I happen to like black backgrounds. My eyes have always preferred the black backgrounds common in command-line OSs (DOS, BSD, Linux, etc.) to the white backgrounds common in windowing environments (Windows, X, MacOS, etc.).
Heh, they probably realized the theft was pointless. "Hey, we have a film now, but there's nothing we can do with it."
I thought the point was that the Linux development style was supposed to be better than the Microsoft development style. This "we say it works but try it a while to see, there's always a few bugs" approach is one of the hallmarks of Microsoft software that I would hope to avoid. Oh well.
Sure, the development is nice, but having a reliable news site is even more nice. Use the tools to get it done. If Linux is stable, use it. If it continues to be as unstable as recently, use Free/Net/OpenBSD or something else more stable. VMS, anyone?
Well, that doesn't improve things. You merely shift the focus from the quality of the Linux kernel to the quality of other Free Software. MSSQL is not nearly as buggy as MySQL is.
That said, I'm still in favor of Free Software. I just think all these claims that Free Software development leads to bug-free software (or even less buggy software) are unfounded.
Well, if that is the case, then things should be cleared up. 2.2.8 should *not* be named a "stable" kernel when it comes out. It should be considered a development kernel (hence mission-critical systems are warned not to use it) until it's out for a few weeks with no problems, then upgraded to "stable" status.
Perhaps you need to watch the original trilogy again.
You'd notice that the leader of the entire rebellion is female.
Politically correct enough for you?
I guess this puts to rest all the arguments of those people who were saying that it's slashdot's setup, not the Linux kernel, that was causing the problem. Apparently it was a bug in the kernel itself. A known bug, but a bug nonetheless, and a serious one that caused the site to lose uptime at that.
I disagree. Anakin's part was really well acted, IMHO. He is supposed to act like a kid, since he is a kid. An incredibly intelligent kid in whom the Force is strong, but still a kid nonetheless.
As for being nice, he is supposed to. He is a kind, selfless, generous person, who later becomes seduced to the dark side. In Episode I, he is not Darth Vader, and he is not evil. Obi-Wan mentions this in one of the other movies (Return of the Jedi, IIRC).
I'm aware that distribution of ROM images of copyrighted ROMs is illegal. I was just pointing out that their statement that "all ROMs are illegal" is incorrect. "All illegal ROMs are illegal" is really the only statement you can make about this. It depends on the copyright and licensing status of each individual ROM.
Somehow the -1 score on this post gives me the feeling that moderators don't read past the subject line.
It took me 2 days to install and configure NT/95, due to lack of support for my SCSI Adapter (I rally don't know what's wrong with those NT drivers). I cannot count the number of reboots, reinstall this and that, reboot, shutdown on windows protection erros bla bla bla.
Well, if you have unsupported hardware on win95, it won't work well. The same goes for Linux. The problem is that there's more unsupported or not-very-well-supported hardware for Linux than for Windows, which is why Linux is harder to install for most of us. That, and Windows does a better job (usually) of detecting and picking decent default configurations.
P.S. Please, you don't have to reboot to set X, the network, you modem, you sound card, Linux isn't windows. Just run on level 3, if X fail to start properly, CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, that should do it.
Next time, by RedHat or OpenLinux, must simple for newbies like US.
I didn't reboot in X. I rebooted in XF86Setup, because I didn't know the exact specs for my video card, and apparently I picked settings that didn't work. That caused my display to get really messed up, and I had no idea how to fix it. ctrl+alt+backspace didn't work, since I was in XF86Setup, not X itself.
I ended up having to reboot more times for Linux (around 4 or 5) than for Windows (once).
Just a minor note - Z-Shell isn't necessary anymore. The Z-Shell was necessary to do asm programming on the TI-85, which didn't support it, but the TI-86 supports asm programs natively, without any shells or workarounds.
Email noalegal@noa.nintendo.com and let them know what you think of this.
While you're at it, you might want to point out the inaccuracies in their legal FAQ.
Nintendo's FAQ says:
Are all ROMS on the Internet Illegal?
Yes. All ROMs available on the Internet are unauthorized and infringing copies of copyrighted works
That's incorrect. I have several legal ROMs, such as the pong demo written for the n64, and several original n64 and snes games available either as freeware or public domain software. These ROMs are not illegal.
If they do not agree with the actions the RIAA is taking, why do they not leave the RIAA? The RIAA does what its members want it to do. I blame the members for not withdrawing from this organization.
Of course, I'm not completely boycotting RIAA labels, just mostly. In the last year, I've bought around 40 CDs, of which 5 have been from labels who are members of the RIAA. The other 35 came from independent record labels.
Yeah, I agree, which is why Linux sucks. It has all these "automatic programs" running everything for you, which "fucks shit up." If you want disk access, do it yourself. No need for fancy ext2fs garbage. And what's with this GIMP thing. What's wrong with a hex editor?
Hmm, that wasn't quite my experience. I was using Slackware.
It went more like the following:
1) Boot to Windows, put the CD in drive (the CD is not bootable itself).
2) Find the proper disk image to make a boot disk with (i needed sbpcd.i to use my non-IDE CD-ROM drive. Use fat32.i if you want to read a fat32 drive. If you want both, I guess you're out of luck).
3) Make a boot disk using the disk images on the CD and the included-on-the-CD DOS boot-disk-making program
4) reboot with the disk
5) wait about 20 minutes for it to find my non-IDE CD-ROM drive.
6) Pop up a really bad install program.
7) wander through options, having no idea (with no explanations being offered) of what exactly a "D" package or a "X" package is.
8) Pick some packages and install
9) some un-explained configuration questions come up. I have no idea what to answer for most of them, so I guess. Some stuff works.
10) Realize I didn't install the "X" package, so go back and do that.
11) Try to run X. It won't start.
12) Reboot to win95, ask for help on IRC, am told to run XF86Setup. Run it.
13) It does not detect my video card. Instead I have to mess with tons of options.
14) Reboot two or three times when the display becomes irreversibly messed up.
15) Finally get it working. startx.
16) Ok, now what? Most of the items in fvwm95's psuedo-start-menu won't run, saying I haven't installed them (so why is the menu item there then?). Mess with the non-intuitive file manager, and try to get cut-and-paste working.
17) Try to get modem working.
18) Give up, try to get printer working.
19) Reboot to win95, use that instead.
Well, the point is that RedHat should've recognized the CD. If Windows recognizes his CD drive and RedHat does not, Windows is working and RedHat isn't, so of course he will prefer Windows.
Interesting. I've had the exact opposite experience. I've installed win95 twice, once on an empty box and once a reinstall over a messed-up install of it. Both went extremely smoothly and I was up and running within 30 minutes, with my network card, modem, video card, printer, etc., all configured.
Then I installed Slackware (3.0). After messing with some disk images, I managed to get a boot disk to support my non-IDE cdrom drive (using the sbpcd.i disk image). The boot-up took about 20 minutes as it scanned (really slowly) various addresses (or something, it didn't explain what it was doing, just took a while) to find the CD-ROM drive. After it found it, the install went relatively smoothly, except for the fact that all the packages were just listed by a single letter, with no explanations, and being a Linux novice, "D" did not mean anything to me.
Then came the X setup. I played around with XF86Setup for about an hour, rebooting two or three times in the process. Finally I got a working 640x480 8-bit color X server running. After a day or so i managed to get 800x600 16-bit color working. And I never did get my printer set up.
Well, since hotmail is still running FreeBSD, your argument means one of two things:
1) You are lying and spreading FUD to try to make NT look bad
2) FreeBSD is buggy and crash-prone, thus causing the problems you described
Are you sure this is what you were trying to say?
It's not just their provider, though the provider is partially to blame. For hours at a time the network slashdot is on will be down (the provider's fault). However, sometimes the network will be up, and pings will get through to slashdot, but the box is crashed one way or another, and not accepting port 80 connections. Some Apache, MySQL, or mod_perl bug, or a combination of them.
I bet you also make your graphics in a hex editor. Who needs the GIMP when you can just hex edit?
I never said I don't appreciate Rob's work, or don't like slashdot. I was merely correcting the previous poster's erroneous statement that slashdot is a non-profit endeavor, since it does indeed make money.
Caldera were suing Microsoft for allegedly trying to kill off DR-DOS. Windows 3.x ran perfectly fine over DR-DOS, as well as over MS-DOS, and this apparently annoyed Microsoft, so Windows 95 has some incompatibilities allegedly deliberately introduced to keep DR-DOS from working (no, despite what Microsoft says, win95 is not a completely independent OS, it's still built on top of DOS).
/. and you'll find some more.
Links:
old news.com story.
Caldera's take on it (more recent)
A microsoft witness says the company destroyed documents relating to this case.
BTW, all these links are from old slashdot articles (some from September 1998, a few from 1999). Search for "caldera suit" on