I mean most people use weatherbug even though it is scary ad bedecked, slow, and when better options exist. Yet they do. So most likely accuweather shouldn't worry.
Another reason why people should just switch over to Linux and use Gnome, where we have a weather status applet already, w/out the security fears. Yeah, I know KDE has one too, but let's not get into a row about which is better, KDE or Gnome, because we all can agree that they're both better and more innovative than MS has been with Windows over the past few(7-8) years....
I think you mean "or even five buttons on your mouse", but really, it goes up to 7 or 9, depending on if you have an explorer mouse with the tilt wheel or not. Just thought I'd represent the people that spend time configuring their XOrg systems.
Am I going to be the first to suggest this? Dear god, it's as simple as Crossover and Photoshop, people! Now if we could only get something like Wine to run Apple software on top of Linux....
I figured out how we could balance the budget and keep social security and medicare as they are, and also double funding for transportation, energy efficiency, and science. All it requires is that we don't invade Iraq and if we cut our military in half!
So if it uses less energy, could we manage to do this with less energy than what's produced from combustion when you ignite the H's in an atmosphere filled with O's?
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That's because X isn't for Windows, it's for *NIX!
Sad news ... Stephen King, dead at 54
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
You see, the difference between the two sides, though, is that EXT2, EXT3, Reiser, etc, are all open-sourced, so MS could support them if they wanted to. NTFS is closed-source, and the only way we've been able to get as much support as we have so far is through reverse-engineering.
I remember seeing a story on the History channel about 3 stage rockets.... From the jist of the documentry, the soviets didn't have too much luck with it (Stage 2 burning before Stage 1 detaches, etc). All in all, they lost a lot of their engineers that way....
My friends and I have given up on inches, meters, yards, miles, etc, and have substituted them all with yey's. E.g: How big is book? About yey thick.
How far away were you? About yey far.
How fast did you end up driving? Meh, yey fast.
So once they figure out how to make displays that aren't power hogs, maybe the notebooks will take over the desktops? Honestly, we've gotten to the point with CPU's and hard drives that the average person doesn't need a new computer, they can make due more than happily with something that was top of the line two or three years ago (Desktop-wise).
Don't have too big of worries. My predictions are that if enough companies decide to make the switch to Linux, Microsoft will make a Linux port of Office, much like they did for Apple. Hopefully it's only a matter of time.
Oh, but it is Apple hardware. Whatever the Party says is is, and whatever it says isn't doesn't exist. Therefore, non-Apple hardware is non-existant, has never existed, and will never exist.
I suppose I should finish that book sometime soon....
Well, I'm glad I found out how to uninstall MSN...
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Yep, I guess that's 1 less vulnerability I have for Windows now, since I uninstalled MSN Messenger. So here's my prediction:
Since microsoft's solution to all of their vulnerabilities, they'll just send out a security update disabling their messenger. Little will they know that they're disabling their own product though, because honestly, who can keep track of all of the programs MS makes, especially the ones that have Microsoft in their names?
If this is true, that Pat is dropping Gnome, I'll have to stick with Slack 10.0 until they bring it back. In my opinion, GDM is soo much better than KDM. I really appreciate being able to log in as more than one user in X without having to use more than one terminal. Granted, it can be a little buggy at times, those are risks I'm willing to take. Heck, that's why you can save what you're doing!
I also like how Gnome is much more simple to use. Granted KDE is more common b/c of its similarities with the Win95/NT series OS's, I'm more attracted to Gnome. I just find it cleaner.
So if they drop Gnome support, would XFce go too? That's got to be my favorite light-weight environment, and is what I use on my 200mhz computer whenever I decide to boot the thing up and start up X.
Beat them over the head with a stick.... C'mon, I don't want to end up compiling all of the packages just to find out that the official Slackware ones were posted the day after I finish compiling and installing.
Great, just what we need, another Starwars Cult
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I say that the old Starwars Cult and the StraTrek cults join up just for once to destroy the Dark Side and the Borgs.
Whatever happened to the 14th amendment? If something's ruled unconstitutional in one state, it's pretty much unconstitutional in another unless the supreme court rules that it is constitutional, isn't it? Or would it rely on state constitutions? Man, I'm in AP US Government, I should know this stuff.... Maybe that's why I don't think I'm going to do so hot on the test tomorrow.....
The problem is the zealots. I have Slackware Linux and Windows XP both installed on this computer. I've spent too much time trying to iron out the problems I've had with things like upgrading XOrg6.7.0 to 6.8.1 (only to go back to 6.7.0) and trying to get Wine (and later WineX CVS) to work, only to find out that I still can't get some of my favorite games (like You Don't know Jack: The Ride) installed. But hey, for everything other than gaming, what I have is a solid system. Is OpenOffice as good as MS office? Not by any means. Granted, I'd much rather have Office XP or Office 2000 ported to Linux than the latest release (I'm against having everything built into the sidebar, I like having the popup dictionary/thesaurus, little things like that.) My 2 main complaints about OpenOffice: you'll never be able to get the first-line indentation tab perfectly at any length (You'll get close, but it doesn't snap, which would be very helpful) and the thesaurus just lumps anything that's similar in the same category, it doesn't break up by different subjects. But other than that, what I have is a computer where if it's booted into Linux, my mom can use KDE and have it run just like it would if she were in Windows, except she just can't install programs like Ikea planners &c.
But I concur, Linux is not ready for prime-time yet, and I currently think it will always be a niche group composed of different reasons. There's some that are purly anti-Microsoft. I'm not one of those, I acknowledge what they've managed to do well (previous versions of Office), but I don't feel any dedication to stay with them. The main reason why I use Linux is because I like its potential. I like being able to have a webserver up and running as soon as I install the OS. I like being able to upgrade a component like the webserver or the FTP server, and not having it break the whole system because they're not built into the system. I also like how the market's small enough that we're not being exploited like Microsoft's market is by crackers. Most of all, if a program doens't work, I can troubleshoot it much more easily than I can in Windows.
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I mean most people use weatherbug even though it is scary ad bedecked, slow, and when better options exist. Yet they do. So most likely accuweather shouldn't worry. Another reason why people should just switch over to Linux and use Gnome, where we have a weather status applet already, w/out the security fears. Yeah, I know KDE has one too, but let's not get into a row about which is better, KDE or Gnome, because we all can agree that they're both better and more innovative than MS has been with Windows over the past few(7-8) years....
I think you mean "or even five buttons on your mouse", but really, it goes up to 7 or 9, depending on if you have an explorer mouse with the tilt wheel or not. Just thought I'd represent the people that spend time configuring their XOrg systems.
What the hell does this mean about our atomic clocks???
"Meanwhile, Advanced Micro Devices Inc..., Intel's smaller rival that made its name by making bargain-basement Intel knockoffs...."
Am I going to be the first to suggest this? Dear god, it's as simple as Crossover and Photoshop, people! Now if we could only get something like Wine to run Apple software on top of Linux....
Psh, what about the ££???
I figured out how we could balance the budget and keep social security and medicare as they are, and also double funding for transportation, energy efficiency, and science. All it requires is that we don't invade Iraq and if we cut our military in half!
Just a thought, I'm probably just spreading FUD now...
Finally, a real use for those hampster wheels and hampsters....
So if it uses less energy, could we manage to do this with less energy than what's produced from combustion when you ignite the H's in an atmosphere filled with O's?
That's because X isn't for Windows, it's for *NIX!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
You see, the difference between the two sides, though, is that EXT2, EXT3, Reiser, etc, are all open-sourced, so MS could support them if they wanted to. NTFS is closed-source, and the only way we've been able to get as much support as we have so far is through reverse-engineering.
I remember seeing a story on the History channel about 3 stage rockets.... From the jist of the documentry, the soviets didn't have too much luck with it (Stage 2 burning before Stage 1 detaches, etc). All in all, they lost a lot of their engineers that way....
My friends and I have given up on inches, meters, yards, miles, etc, and have substituted them all with yey's. E.g: How big is book? About yey thick. How far away were you? About yey far. How fast did you end up driving? Meh, yey fast.
So once they figure out how to make displays that aren't power hogs, maybe the notebooks will take over the desktops? Honestly, we've gotten to the point with CPU's and hard drives that the average person doesn't need a new computer, they can make due more than happily with something that was top of the line two or three years ago (Desktop-wise).
Don't have too big of worries. My predictions are that if enough companies decide to make the switch to Linux, Microsoft will make a Linux port of Office, much like they did for Apple. Hopefully it's only a matter of time.
Oh, but it is Apple hardware. Whatever the Party says is is, and whatever it says isn't doesn't exist. Therefore, non-Apple hardware is non-existant, has never existed, and will never exist. I suppose I should finish that book sometime soon....
Yep, I guess that's 1 less vulnerability I have for Windows now, since I uninstalled MSN Messenger. So here's my prediction: Since microsoft's solution to all of their vulnerabilities, they'll just send out a security update disabling their messenger. Little will they know that they're disabling their own product though, because honestly, who can keep track of all of the programs MS makes, especially the ones that have Microsoft in their names?
If this is true, that Pat is dropping Gnome, I'll have to stick with Slack 10.0 until they bring it back. In my opinion, GDM is soo much better than KDM. I really appreciate being able to log in as more than one user in X without having to use more than one terminal. Granted, it can be a little buggy at times, those are risks I'm willing to take. Heck, that's why you can save what you're doing!
I also like how Gnome is much more simple to use. Granted KDE is more common b/c of its similarities with the Win95/NT series OS's, I'm more attracted to Gnome. I just find it cleaner.
So if they drop Gnome support, would XFce go too? That's got to be my favorite light-weight environment, and is what I use on my 200mhz computer whenever I decide to boot the thing up and start up X.
Just get a PS2 and ProEvolutionSoccer or Winning Eleven! That's more fun than anything else in the world (at least, the video game world)
Beat them over the head with a stick.... C'mon, I don't want to end up compiling all of the packages just to find out that the official Slackware ones were posted the day after I finish compiling and installing.
I say that the old Starwars Cult and the StraTrek cults join up just for once to destroy the Dark Side and the Borgs.
Whatever happened to the 14th amendment? If something's ruled unconstitutional in one state, it's pretty much unconstitutional in another unless the supreme court rules that it is constitutional, isn't it? Or would it rely on state constitutions? Man, I'm in AP US Government, I should know this stuff.... Maybe that's why I don't think I'm going to do so hot on the test tomorrow.....
The problem is the zealots. I have Slackware Linux and Windows XP both installed on this computer. I've spent too much time trying to iron out the problems I've had with things like upgrading XOrg6.7.0 to 6.8.1 (only to go back to 6.7.0) and trying to get Wine (and later WineX CVS) to work, only to find out that I still can't get some of my favorite games (like You Don't know Jack: The Ride) installed. But hey, for everything other than gaming, what I have is a solid system. Is OpenOffice as good as MS office? Not by any means. Granted, I'd much rather have Office XP or Office 2000 ported to Linux than the latest release (I'm against having everything built into the sidebar, I like having the popup dictionary/thesaurus, little things like that.) My 2 main complaints about OpenOffice: you'll never be able to get the first-line indentation tab perfectly at any length (You'll get close, but it doesn't snap, which would be very helpful) and the thesaurus just lumps anything that's similar in the same category, it doesn't break up by different subjects. But other than that, what I have is a computer where if it's booted into Linux, my mom can use KDE and have it run just like it would if she were in Windows, except she just can't install programs like Ikea planners &c. But I concur, Linux is not ready for prime-time yet, and I currently think it will always be a niche group composed of different reasons. There's some that are purly anti-Microsoft. I'm not one of those, I acknowledge what they've managed to do well (previous versions of Office), but I don't feel any dedication to stay with them. The main reason why I use Linux is because I like its potential. I like being able to have a webserver up and running as soon as I install the OS. I like being able to upgrade a component like the webserver or the FTP server, and not having it break the whole system because they're not built into the system. I also like how the market's small enough that we're not being exploited like Microsoft's market is by crackers. Most of all, if a program doens't work, I can troubleshoot it much more easily than I can in Windows.