It's not a question of patches, jackass. Mozilla uses non-free images. Debian opposes using non-free things, and that's a princple. Perhaps you should consider actually verifying your information. Until then, feel free to go fuck yourself.
For what it's worth, debian has submitted its firefox patches upstream, they just chose not to commit most of them. The "weasel" in iceweasel is 100% appropriate in this case.
I just saw this on Jack Horkenheimer (Star hustler) on pbs. For 5 minutes a week, this show has a lot of cool stuff. I'm glad I have a dvr. I remember watching this when I was 5-10 or so.
He gives very good tips for how to identify different starts, where to find them, what's going on, etc.
I don't think you should be scaring him with the small company stuff. What really should be brought to attention is his age and ability to face risk. Is he middle aged and ready to "settle" at a job that pays pretty good, has pretty good benefits and take the small risk for the small reward? Or is he willing to take a shot at some small company that may be ready to blossom? If it does blossom, is he one of the guys that will be sticking around? Will he get to be paid handsomly if it starts taking off? There's a huge risk there, but there's also considerable return if he plays his cards right.
Spot on. Two years ago I took a very high paying contracting job for working on AIX/Linux. The guys I worked with were great but the company was a huge bloated entity and everything moved at a glacial pace. Security rights, Room access, internet access policy, workstation policy, were all huge pains in the ass for me, enough so that the first week was when I decided I was outta there within a couple of months. My previous job allowed me to run my own linux workstation and work at my own pace.
Fortunately, about 30 days in I got a job offer from another company and I took it when my notice was up. I went back to being able to run my own w/s, not worry about security rights on my machines, etc. I still have to worry about a lot of building security, but that comes with the territory. I must say that despite how trivial control over your w/s sounds, I found it to be paramount to my ability to work efficiently and happily.
Java needs a branch that has the cruft removed, both from the VM and from the class library. A new class library is needed, taking full advantage of generics and the other Java 1.5 features. The VM needs some major upgrades, notably in the area of garbage collection, memory usage reductions, and speed improvements. The backwards compatibility requirements currently forced on Sun seem to have prevented this from happening.
Amazing you guys say this now. Yesterday someone would have argued java is clean and fast and nothing could beat it. Now that, of course, it's happening, you're all for cleaning it up and admitting it's downsides.
Sort of reminds me of Apple's switch to intel. For years powerpc was the best processor for the mac. The g5 was a super computer. The day they switched? Oh the yohan is going to be so powerful! I can't wait for the dual core!
Vista will support all your hardware and it will just work - out of the box.
That sounds a lot like what M$ was promising in Win95. And 98. And 98SE. And ME. And 2k. And XP. Funny you believe it.
Solaris has been there since 1983 and a large enterprise company is backing it up making sure it has only quality code in it. Everything is documented well, it offers you free Java development tools giving you one helluva development environment to work with. Sun goes through all the code that goes into Open Solaris so the quality is top notch. Open Solaris might be what we are looking for. I'm afraid it's time to say goodbye to GNU!
Yay! Free java! Fuck that. Get that shit out of here. Opensolaris? As in, "We append the word Open to something and maybe someone will download it?". Solaris has it's upsides, but one thing it is not, is clean.
His point still stands. sh, ksh, bash, zsh and ash might all support bash-like commands, but that doesn't make it posix. You told the script "I want a posix compliant shell", and you got one.
I wouldn't let the xserver thing bother you. That stuff happens. When you're dealing with tens of thousands of packages, some things are going to go wrong some of the time. It's not like they released it with a super broken experimental gcc that wouldn't even compile its own kernel (cough, redhat, cough).
The only failure that was ubuntu's fault with edgy was not aggresively advertising that edgy was an aggressive attempt at exploring uncharted territories of linux. New init scripts, shuffled packages, new xorg stuff, GL stuff, almost full gnome dbus integration, running a very new kernel with some features that could be considered alpha.
Edgy is, and will always be a beta. No amount of updates to your system will give you the level of stability, support and predictability of dapper.
If we take the House and maybe (oh please, oh please) the Senate, we have the chance to do something that matters: nothing.
You know, that's funny. That's actually one of the defining things of a "conservative" view. The lack of change. Everything how it is. Even more interesting is most conservatives will argue that's not what the conservative party is for. They'll say it's for passing laws against abortion and gay marriage. For applying taxes so the govn. can keep us safe. These are everyday conversations I have with republicans. The new conservatives are the democrats. What's a libertarian to do?
Also... why ship X11 at all? This Oracle Enterprize Linux should be focused at the server-side, shipping with a pre-installed Oracle DB, an Java EJB Container, and a nice web-based console to administrate all that.
I don't know if you've ever installed oracle, but some of the reasons why any good admin knows oracle is written by a bunch of incompetent java monkeys are:
#1. It requires a gui to install. (Not the newest XE, but seeing as it's not entirely popular yet, I won't include that here.). #2. Passwords have no case preservation and use weak hashing. Easy as pie to crack. #3. Virtually non-existent security team and patches. #4. Unreasonably resource intensive. Default install will install tons of java, its own apache, use gobs of space even with no data stored.
The list goes on and on...
While a RHEL install has its downsides, an oracle RHEL should be enough to share the shit out of anyone.
I play ranked usually 10 or so hours a week, and 90% of the time I have the highest score (21-30 kills, occasionally 35-40, but rarely below 15) in TDM. I've been playing like this for at least 6 months. I win consistently, whether my team is 3 vs 5 or 2 vs 6. People consistently drop at the start of games, or sometimes in the middle. Usually if they make it past the halfway point, they're there for the whole game though. Believe me, I'm high skilled enough and have enough playing time in to have climbed quite high, and I still play newbs and lamers who drop to make teams uneven and ultimately, not much fun.
XBL has something worth it, if the game supports it. It's called ranking. It's by far one of the best things about Halo2, and it certainly makes the game a lot more fun. For an example, spend an afternoon playing ranked halo2 and ranked cod2. You'll find with cod2, despite it being super fun, people join with absolutely no clue what they are doing. Half the time, 30% or more players quit the game, and 5% of the time, the game is laggy.
With Halo2, OTOH, I can jump on and since I have a fairly high rank, I know I'm not going to be disappointed because I'm playing a bunch of newbs. I know a significant majority of them will not quit because it counts as a loss against their rank, I know their big brother isn't going to let them play on his ranked profile, I know the host will rarely be laggy because he has an interest in winning so he'll stop his bittorrent, and I know they're probably not going to jump on halfway drunk or completely stoned.
In addition, I know that most of the time it's a level playing field, no one has a 150% FOV, no one has a tweaked sniper and rarely will anyone every "cheat". Compare this to the old days of Q3 and ladders or UT and clans, and it's a godsend. I now know what my *real* rank is against everyone in the world who plays this game on this console. I know if I have a good chance of winning, and I know it's usually gonna be a goddamn fun, if very close, game.
This, to me, is well worth the $50/year. I would _love_ to see COD2 support rankings, but I think we'll have to wait and see if COD3 has it.
There are more general purpose registers, which are used whether the app is optimized for them or not. They're there, they make things faster, they're used. From a usuability view, they're like cache. Sure, it can work with a little, but having more only helps.
There are plenty of things that are still cpu bound. Math applications (SSH? OpenSSL? Encrypted partitions), Video apps (encoding, ripping), etc.
Someone was lying to you when they said AMD64 is only beneficial when you're using 4GB+ of RAM. This is fud.
Are you kidding? klibido (ubuntu: sudo apt-get install klibido) is the only news client as far as I'm concerned. Unlike most other clients, klibido is geared towards binary downloads. It' supports multiple servers so you can use your ISPs and say, your $15/mon unlimited account from newshosting.com (regularly get 4MB/s (yes, bytes) from there) at the same time.
It has native support for nzb so a visit to www.binsearch.info/ is easy and sleazy. Pop it into klibido and away you go.
I used easy news for some time, but the fact that they don't support unlimited really was costing me, otherwise they get 11/10 from me. I'm pretty happy with newshosting.com, too. They're a little slower but I can download all month long.
Why the fuck do they need winnebagos? If I'm dying somewhere and don't have money, it's time to friggen walk. I can't believe how many people complain about africa, yet fail to realize it was never any different at any other time in history. If you are dying because of the climate you are in, you deserve it because you weren't smart enough to realize it's time to get the fuck out of there. Just about anyone can pick up a walking stick and start walking. Hell, fuck the stick, just walk.
The OSS community, and the proprietary community have had better interoperability with Ms products than Adobe products. While I'm certainly no fan of MS things, I'm sort of glad, in a way.
A. They wouldn't (seemingly) randomly shorten the list of devices supported by the driver. B. Actually fix bugs that have been open for a very long time that affect usage. C. Support low/medium end cards. When I go out and buy a card on the cheap, I _always_ buy NVIDIA, because I know the geforce driver will support it. D. Enable the Windows features for linux. E. Actually give a flying fuck about Linux users in general.
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It's not a question of patches, jackass. Mozilla uses non-free images. Debian opposes using non-free things, and that's a princple. Perhaps you should consider actually verifying your information. Until then, feel free to go fuck yourself.
For what it's worth, debian has submitted its firefox patches upstream, they just chose not to commit most of them. The "weasel" in iceweasel is 100% appropriate in this case.
Yeah, what a pain. A distro that has principles and standards and holds them high. How could they do such a thing?
But I interpret "suitable" as referring to stability, performance, security, and reliability...
You're obviously not talking about java.
I just saw this on Jack Horkenheimer (Star hustler) on pbs. For 5 minutes a week, this show has a lot of cool stuff. I'm glad I have a dvr. I remember watching this when I was 5-10 or so.
He gives very good tips for how to identify different starts, where to find them, what's going on, etc.
I don't think you should be scaring him with the small company stuff. What really should be brought to attention is his age and ability to face risk. Is he middle aged and ready to "settle" at a job that pays pretty good, has pretty good benefits and take the small risk for the small reward? Or is he willing to take a shot at some small company that may be ready to blossom? If it does blossom, is he one of the guys that will be sticking around? Will he get to be paid handsomly if it starts taking off? There's a huge risk there, but there's also considerable return if he plays his cards right.
Spot on. Two years ago I took a very high paying contracting job for working on AIX/Linux. The guys I worked with were great but the company was a huge bloated entity and everything moved at a glacial pace. Security rights, Room access, internet access policy, workstation policy, were all huge pains in the ass for me, enough so that the first week was when I decided I was outta there within a couple of months. My previous job allowed me to run my own linux workstation and work at my own pace.
Fortunately, about 30 days in I got a job offer from another company and I took it when my notice was up. I went back to being able to run my own w/s, not worry about security rights on my machines, etc. I still have to worry about a lot of building security, but that comes with the territory. I must say that despite how trivial control over your w/s sounds, I found it to be paramount to my ability to work efficiently and happily.
Java needs a branch that has the cruft removed, both from the VM and from the class library. A new class library is needed, taking full advantage of generics and the other Java 1.5 features. The VM needs some major upgrades, notably in the area of garbage collection, memory usage reductions, and speed improvements. The backwards compatibility requirements currently forced on Sun seem to have prevented this from happening.
Amazing you guys say this now. Yesterday someone would have argued java is clean and fast and nothing could beat it. Now that, of course, it's happening, you're all for cleaning it up and admitting it's downsides.
Sort of reminds me of Apple's switch to intel. For years powerpc was the best processor for the mac. The g5 was a super computer. The day they switched? Oh the yohan is going to be so powerful! I can't wait for the dual core!
LOL! A government entity giving a fuck about something? That'll be the day.
Vista will support all your hardware and it will just work - out of the box.
That sounds a lot like what M$ was promising in Win95. And 98. And 98SE. And ME. And 2k. And XP. Funny you believe it.
Solaris has been there since 1983 and a large enterprise company is backing it up making sure it has only quality code in it. Everything is documented well, it offers you free Java development tools giving you one helluva development environment to work with. Sun goes through all the code that goes into Open Solaris so the quality is top notch. Open Solaris might be what we are looking for. I'm afraid it's time to say goodbye to GNU!
Yay! Free java! Fuck that. Get that shit out of here. Opensolaris? As in, "We append the word Open to something and maybe someone will download it?". Solaris has it's upsides, but one thing it is not, is clean.
His point still stands. sh, ksh, bash, zsh and ash might all support bash-like commands, but that doesn't make it posix. You told the script "I want a posix compliant shell", and you got one.
I wouldn't let the xserver thing bother you. That stuff happens. When you're dealing with tens of thousands of packages, some things are going to go wrong some of the time. It's not like they released it with a super broken experimental gcc that wouldn't even compile its own kernel (cough, redhat, cough).
The only failure that was ubuntu's fault with edgy was not aggresively advertising that edgy was an aggressive attempt at exploring uncharted territories of linux. New init scripts, shuffled packages, new xorg stuff, GL stuff, almost full gnome dbus integration, running a very new kernel with some features that could be considered alpha.
Edgy is, and will always be a beta. No amount of updates to your system will give you the level of stability, support and predictability of dapper.
If we take the House and maybe (oh please, oh please) the Senate, we have the chance to do something that matters: nothing.
You know, that's funny. That's actually one of the defining things of a "conservative" view. The lack of change. Everything how it is. Even more interesting is most conservatives will argue that's not what the conservative party is for. They'll say it's for passing laws against abortion and gay marriage. For applying taxes so the govn. can keep us safe. These are everyday conversations I have with republicans. The new conservatives are the democrats. What's a libertarian to do?
Also... why ship X11 at all? This Oracle Enterprize Linux should be focused at the server-side, shipping with a pre-installed Oracle DB, an Java EJB Container, and a nice web-based console to administrate all that.
I don't know if you've ever installed oracle, but some of the reasons why any good admin knows oracle is written by a bunch of incompetent java monkeys are:
#1. It requires a gui to install. (Not the newest XE, but seeing as it's not entirely popular yet, I won't include that here.).
#2. Passwords have no case preservation and use weak hashing. Easy as pie to crack.
#3. Virtually non-existent security team and patches.
#4. Unreasonably resource intensive. Default install will install tons of java, its own apache, use gobs of space even with no data stored.
The list goes on and on...
While a RHEL install has its downsides, an oracle RHEL should be enough to share the shit out of anyone.
Up next: Manos, the hands of fate!!!
Comes with free Torgo, the pizza delivery man!
They could please these people by providing them the firewall rule they'd need to enter into their device to prevent connection to google.
I feel the need to complain about the old school shell script variable syntax.
I play ranked usually 10 or so hours a week, and 90% of the time I have the highest score (21-30 kills, occasionally 35-40, but rarely below 15) in TDM. I've been playing like this for at least 6 months. I win consistently, whether my team is 3 vs 5 or 2 vs 6. People consistently drop at the start of games, or sometimes in the middle. Usually if they make it past the halfway point, they're there for the whole game though. Believe me, I'm high skilled enough and have enough playing time in to have climbed quite high, and I still play newbs and lamers who drop to make teams uneven and ultimately, not much fun.
XBL has something worth it, if the game supports it. It's called ranking. It's by far one of the best things about Halo2, and it certainly makes the game a lot more fun. For an example, spend an afternoon playing ranked halo2 and ranked cod2. You'll find with cod2, despite it being super fun, people join with absolutely no clue what they are doing. Half the time, 30% or more players quit the game, and 5% of the time, the game is laggy.
With Halo2, OTOH, I can jump on and since I have a fairly high rank, I know I'm not going to be disappointed because I'm playing a bunch of newbs. I know a significant majority of them will not quit because it counts as a loss against their rank, I know their big brother isn't going to let them play on his ranked profile, I know the host will rarely be laggy because he has an interest in winning so he'll stop his bittorrent, and I know they're probably not going to jump on halfway drunk or completely stoned.
In addition, I know that most of the time it's a level playing field, no one has a 150% FOV, no one has a tweaked sniper and rarely will anyone every "cheat". Compare this to the old days of Q3 and ladders or UT and clans, and it's a godsend. I now know what my *real* rank is against everyone in the world who plays this game on this console. I know if I have a good chance of winning, and I know it's usually gonna be a goddamn fun, if very close, game.
This, to me, is well worth the $50/year. I would _love_ to see COD2 support rankings, but I think we'll have to wait and see if COD3 has it.
callofduty.com just went flash8 the other day, so I went there. Seems to work well so far.
There are more general purpose registers, which are used whether the app is optimized for them or not. They're there, they make things faster, they're used. From a usuability view, they're like cache. Sure, it can work with a little, but having more only helps.
There are plenty of things that are still cpu bound. Math applications (SSH? OpenSSL? Encrypted partitions), Video apps (encoding, ripping), etc.
Someone was lying to you when they said AMD64 is only beneficial when you're using 4GB+ of RAM. This is fud.
Are you kidding? klibido (ubuntu: sudo apt-get install klibido) is the only news client as far as I'm concerned.
Unlike most other clients, klibido is geared towards binary downloads. It' supports multiple servers so you can use your ISPs and say, your $15/mon unlimited account from newshosting.com (regularly get 4MB/s (yes, bytes) from there) at the same time.
It has native support for nzb so a visit to www.binsearch.info/ is easy and sleazy. Pop it into klibido and away you go.
I used easy news for some time, but the fact that they don't support unlimited really was costing me, otherwise they get 11/10 from me. I'm pretty happy with newshosting.com, too. They're a little slower but I can download all month long.
Why the fuck do they need winnebagos? If I'm dying somewhere and don't have money, it's time to friggen walk. I can't believe how many people complain about africa, yet fail to realize it was never any different at any other time in history. If you are dying because of the climate you are in, you deserve it because you weren't smart enough to realize it's time to get the fuck out of there. Just about anyone can pick up a walking stick and start walking. Hell, fuck the stick, just walk.
The OSS community, and the proprietary community have had better interoperability with Ms products than Adobe products. While I'm certainly no fan of MS things, I'm sort of glad, in a way.
I think they're trying to give oracle a run for their money.
I wouldn't mind using ATI, if:
A. They wouldn't (seemingly) randomly shorten the list of devices supported by the driver.
B. Actually fix bugs that have been open for a very long time that affect usage.
C. Support low/medium end cards. When I go out and buy a card on the cheap, I _always_ buy NVIDIA, because I know the geforce driver will support it.
D. Enable the Windows features for linux.
E. Actually give a flying fuck about Linux users in general.