When was the last time you bought a console that didn't have a custom kernel?
Anywho, you know this thing is going to fail against the PS3 on the sole basis that it isn't carrying either BlueRay OR HDDVD, right?
The individuals who work at Microsoft are either ignorant, desperate or believe there should be a fascist monopoly in the operating system market.
I suppose you're going to call them prostitutes now, because they need money, and figure that they would be best off financially by working for Microsoft.
Honestly, you need to grow up. As much of an advocate of Linux as I am, MS still has its uses; otherwise it wouldn't exist. They still make a kick-ass office suite(granted, nothing's been revolutionary lately, and for the average person, they don't need much past Office 2000.) Perhaps Microsoft would be better off (quality-wise, not financially), if they phased out all of their projects other than building OS's and office suites. I really don't know how much better MS Streets is compared to Google Maps, other than you don't have to be connected to the internet to use it, and it has a database of buildings/locations other than just their addresses(which Google could do too, if they wanted.) The only thing I have against MS is that they keep buying smaller companies, then kill off competition for programs like Streets & Trips equivalents, meaning that there's nothing really evolves, other than them adding new addresses from buildings that get erected over the previous year.
...should he be held libel (assuming he is making information up), or at least harrassing you? That is law-suit-worthy, and can be used as leverage, should the situation arise. But I wouldn't really make it known to him that you could do such, because he could accuse you of blackmail.
Best of luck
Actually what is needed is a public, non-profit benchmark competition. Both Windows and Linux enthusiasts are welcome to join in.
Of course, we've all heard that Microsoft won't let anyone publish benchmarks as part of their EULA.
So the only people they will allow to publish those benchmarks are the people they are paying to make favourable ones.
[ of course, that could be just some paranoid Slashdot meme I've picked up, but I do recall reading it numerous times. ]
That's why each of the teams is its own corporation. When MS sues them, they simply dissolve, and none of the people from the team can be sued (since it was a corporate action.) Oh the wonders of abusing businesses....
I'm guessing your card went south. My Radeon 8500 worked fine for 2 years, then the fan started grinding to a halt. When I used it under Linux, I got horizontal lines from the edges of all of my windows. Under WindowsXP, if I tried to play a DVD, I actually got the BSoD. So I emailed ATI, got a replacement card. The fan on that one was loud and wobbly, so I sent it back again. Third card, I think I shorted it because I didn't ground myself (and wore socks while walking on carpeting.) Fourth card was the charm though, and ATI even covered the expense for shipping the 3rd card back!
I know that Maya6.5 works on Gentoo without any problems. I'd imagine that 7 would, as well. If that's the case, chances are you could use your CAD program with nearly any distro out there. The only difference I can see is whether or not the distros come with the required binaries included, or if you'd have to hunt around for them a little bit.
I work as a "student advisor" at Leeds University and every student is issued with a free license to McAfee Virusscan Enterprise.
When connecting for the first time, they have to enter their university username and password so the IP address can be tied to their MAC address and the computer logged.
If their software detects viral traffic from their PC, they're automatically cut off from the net and a webpage comes up explaining why. They don't get re-connected until myself (or one of my colleagues) verifies they have virus scanning software installed and their PC is clean.
First few weeks of term there were a lot of people cut off, but virus infections now are next to nothing because everyone has the software running.
Apart from this, the internet connection here is extremely good. Fast and reliable, and no port blocking.
I really hope that the software isn't required to be running to have access to the internet, because otherwise it would be screwing Linux users over big time.
Been out for a while, mate:
http://playstation2-linux.com/
Too bad we can't buy them any more here in the States. I heard Europe might still be selling them. But then again, PS3 is expected to ship early 2006, and I don't think I need to run Linux on another 200/233mhz computer.
I KNEW there was a reason I was happy Gnome2.10 came out! But I probably won't get one of these phones until Gnome3 comes out. And by then, who knows, maybe E17 will be stable enough to run on it.
I'm sick of suffering from being a non-IE user. Too many websites are built for IE, instead of abiding by html standards. Mostly it has to do with web-applications, but when I wanted to see if Harvard thinks I'm a racist ( https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selecta test.html ) I get pissed off that I can't open the tests with Netscape or FireFox. And the only way the websites are going to change is if demand changes. It's simply economics.
The project's been out there for a while. If you don't believe me, feel free to check out Gentoo's forums to get a rough idea.
for example: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-316615-highli ght-.html
The whole study was based off of BMI values, which makes the study pointless. Joe Sixpack could be "overweight" on the BMI chart, but have low body fat, while Joe Keg could have nearly no muscle, and have a much higher body fat percentage. Who lives a healthier life (physically, maybe not practically), a football/soccer (depending on location) player, or an office worker that never exercises other than walking down to the water cooler?
I say screw all of this development. Screw these '3d' environments. I want a VR environment, where I have a projector that emits a 360 degree (on the XZ axis) and either a 180 degree or 360 degree (on the XY ZY axi) And I want to be able to drive around in it.
I would imagine it's more for the documentation and support, more than anything else. That, and possibly non-OSS software that they have to pay royalties to. Like people have pointed out before, there's still Personal Learning editions and the like out there.
ATMs are at least owned by the bank and significantly harder to tamper with in a non-obvious way.
Sorry to damage your sense of security, but at the bank I work at, we don't actually own the ATM outside. Sure, it has our name on it, but we contract the ATM out to another company. So we actually don't have access to the ATM, only the ATM company does, not the bank.
Sorry mate
...Significantly, too. Granted, not on the desktop, but in the server arena. And granted, not to the same extent that it's dented Unix. But the mere fact that MS decided to create a campaign (very political-like too, all built on lies & half-truths) to create FUD, just goes to show that Linux is denting Windows. Will it ever replace Windows? No, just like how MS hasn't replaced Apple (they still have their loyal fanbase, and as Apple is the new trend-setter, they'll be around for quite a while.) So, long story short: It's going to be a 3 type arena for a long time: Windows*, Mac*, and Linux*.
The way I see it right now, the only way Linux could severely dent MS's desktop percentage is if Dell and other giant companies that build computers for idiots start providing Linux as OEM, and not to hide it. I know Dell provides Linux pre-installed on a few workstations, but they go out of their way to hide them. And even then, they only provide RedHat. The average computer user isn't a gamer: it's the gamer's parents and grandparents. That, and school kids that download everything they see off of KaZaA, thus promoting the viral population.
I'm happy with my iRiver iFP 799 thankyou very much. 1GB of storage, built-in FM tuner and microphone, and uses 1 AA battery that (if non-rechargable) lasts about 40 hours. Battery dies? No problem, pop it out and put in a new one. These lithium ion batteries are bad things in small objects where you can't easily remove them (thinking iPods).
Ditto
Why must they do what they do with their diction??? Anywho, I suppose the release date of 1Q/2Q 2006 for the PS3 is decent, it's giving me time to scrape up enough money to buy it, whatever the cost (It's got to be more than the traditional $300, unless Sony plans on selling the unit for less than what it cost to make, like MS did with the XBox....)
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Does this mean I can bypass the filters at school and work??
When was the last time you bought a console that didn't have a custom kernel?
Anywho, you know this thing is going to fail against the PS3 on the sole basis that it isn't carrying either BlueRay OR HDDVD, right?
That's all great and all, but when I can use this with 3dsm and Maya?
The individuals who work at Microsoft are either ignorant, desperate or believe there should be a fascist monopoly in the operating system market.
I suppose you're going to call them prostitutes now, because they need money, and figure that they would be best off financially by working for Microsoft.Honestly, you need to grow up. As much of an advocate of Linux as I am, MS still has its uses; otherwise it wouldn't exist. They still make a kick-ass office suite(granted, nothing's been revolutionary lately, and for the average person, they don't need much past Office 2000.) Perhaps Microsoft would be better off (quality-wise, not financially), if they phased out all of their projects other than building OS's and office suites. I really don't know how much better MS Streets is compared to Google Maps, other than you don't have to be connected to the internet to use it, and it has a database of buildings/locations other than just their addresses(which Google could do too, if they wanted.) The only thing I have against MS is that they keep buying smaller companies, then kill off competition for programs like Streets & Trips equivalents, meaning that there's nothing really evolves, other than them adding new addresses from buildings that get erected over the previous year.
...should he be held libel (assuming he is making information up), or at least harrassing you? That is law-suit-worthy, and can be used as leverage, should the situation arise. But I wouldn't really make it known to him that you could do such, because he could accuse you of blackmail. Best of luck
There are 42 OSS projects where no one but the other ever bothers to look at the code.
Actually what is needed is a public, non-profit benchmark competition. Both Windows and Linux enthusiasts are welcome to join in.
Of course, we've all heard that Microsoft won't let anyone publish benchmarks as part of their EULA.
So the only people they will allow to publish those benchmarks are the people they are paying to make favourable ones.
[ of course, that could be just some paranoid Slashdot meme I've picked up, but I do recall reading it numerous times. ] That's why each of the teams is its own corporation. When MS sues them, they simply dissolve, and none of the people from the team can be sued (since it was a corporate action.) Oh the wonders of abusing businesses....
I'm guessing your card went south. My Radeon 8500 worked fine for 2 years, then the fan started grinding to a halt. When I used it under Linux, I got horizontal lines from the edges of all of my windows. Under WindowsXP, if I tried to play a DVD, I actually got the BSoD. So I emailed ATI, got a replacement card. The fan on that one was loud and wobbly, so I sent it back again. Third card, I think I shorted it because I didn't ground myself (and wore socks while walking on carpeting.) Fourth card was the charm though, and ATI even covered the expense for shipping the 3rd card back!
I know that Maya6.5 works on Gentoo without any problems. I'd imagine that 7 would, as well. If that's the case, chances are you could use your CAD program with nearly any distro out there. The only difference I can see is whether or not the distros come with the required binaries included, or if you'd have to hunt around for them a little bit.
I work as a "student advisor" at Leeds University and every student is issued with a free license to McAfee Virusscan Enterprise.
When connecting for the first time, they have to enter their university username and password so the IP address can be tied to their MAC address and the computer logged.
If their software detects viral traffic from their PC, they're automatically cut off from the net and a webpage comes up explaining why. They don't get re-connected until myself (or one of my colleagues) verifies they have virus scanning software installed and their PC is clean.
First few weeks of term there were a lot of people cut off, but virus infections now are next to nothing because everyone has the software running.
Apart from this, the internet connection here is extremely good. Fast and reliable, and no port blocking.
I really hope that the software isn't required to be running to have access to the internet, because otherwise it would be screwing Linux users over big time.Untold numbers of scripts have been lost... If they're untold, how do you know about them?
Open standards are kind of key. Maybe if they worked with the Samba team, they'd get a better reputation with the open-source community.
Been out for a while, mate: http://playstation2-linux.com/ Too bad we can't buy them any more here in the States. I heard Europe might still be selling them. But then again, PS3 is expected to ship early 2006, and I don't think I need to run Linux on another 200/233mhz computer.
I KNEW there was a reason I was happy Gnome2.10 came out! But I probably won't get one of these phones until Gnome3 comes out. And by then, who knows, maybe E17 will be stable enough to run on it.
I'm sick of suffering from being a non-IE user. Too many websites are built for IE, instead of abiding by html standards. Mostly it has to do with web-applications, but when I wanted to see if Harvard thinks I'm a racist ( https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selecta test.html ) I get pissed off that I can't open the tests with Netscape or FireFox. And the only way the websites are going to change is if demand changes. It's simply economics.
The project's been out there for a while. If you don't believe me, feel free to check out Gentoo's forums to get a rough idea. for example: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-316615-highli ght-.html
The whole study was based off of BMI values, which makes the study pointless. Joe Sixpack could be "overweight" on the BMI chart, but have low body fat, while Joe Keg could have nearly no muscle, and have a much higher body fat percentage. Who lives a healthier life (physically, maybe not practically), a football/soccer (depending on location) player, or an office worker that never exercises other than walking down to the water cooler?
I say screw all of this development. Screw these '3d' environments. I want a VR environment, where I have a projector that emits a 360 degree (on the XZ axis) and either a 180 degree or 360 degree (on the XY ZY axi) And I want to be able to drive around in it.
I would imagine it's more for the documentation and support, more than anything else. That, and possibly non-OSS software that they have to pay royalties to. Like people have pointed out before, there's still Personal Learning editions and the like out there.
ATMs are at least owned by the bank and significantly harder to tamper with in a non-obvious way. Sorry to damage your sense of security, but at the bank I work at, we don't actually own the ATM outside. Sure, it has our name on it, but we contract the ATM out to another company. So we actually don't have access to the ATM, only the ATM company does, not the bank. Sorry mate
...or get hit in the Jewels. I don't really know many people that would be able to speak properly after that for a long time....
...Significantly, too. Granted, not on the desktop, but in the server arena. And granted, not to the same extent that it's dented Unix. But the mere fact that MS decided to create a campaign (very political-like too, all built on lies & half-truths) to create FUD, just goes to show that Linux is denting Windows. Will it ever replace Windows? No, just like how MS hasn't replaced Apple (they still have their loyal fanbase, and as Apple is the new trend-setter, they'll be around for quite a while.) So, long story short: It's going to be a 3 type arena for a long time: Windows*, Mac*, and Linux*.
The way I see it right now, the only way Linux could severely dent MS's desktop percentage is if Dell and other giant companies that build computers for idiots start providing Linux as OEM, and not to hide it. I know Dell provides Linux pre-installed on a few workstations, but they go out of their way to hide them. And even then, they only provide RedHat. The average computer user isn't a gamer: it's the gamer's parents and grandparents. That, and school kids that download everything they see off of KaZaA, thus promoting the viral population.
I'm happy with my iRiver iFP 799 thankyou very much. 1GB of storage, built-in FM tuner and microphone, and uses 1 AA battery that (if non-rechargable) lasts about 40 hours. Battery dies? No problem, pop it out and put in a new one. These lithium ion batteries are bad things in small objects where you can't easily remove them (thinking iPods).
Ditto Why must they do what they do with their diction??? Anywho, I suppose the release date of 1Q/2Q 2006 for the PS3 is decent, it's giving me time to scrape up enough money to buy it, whatever the cost (It's got to be more than the traditional $300, unless Sony plans on selling the unit for less than what it cost to make, like MS did with the XBox....)
I believe the post above said something about it: Geeks and nerds may be ahead of the times in technology, but way, way behind in trends and culture.