I'm with you there, but the sorry truth is that w2k is now at the point where applications start to force the switch over to XP - vmware ie. runs so awfully bad on my w2k 2GB dualhead athlon 3800+ desktop I started to run the vms on an acer banyas laptop with just 1 GB amd XP. Games - well, don't really care for them, but they count in that category, too.
There is a theory that the day the soviet union ceased to exist after decades of cold war, some folks in the US started to believe that from now on all limits had gone. Multilateral treaties? Climate change? Geneva Convention? Any science with unwanted results? All those questions get answered like:
"We're an empire now, the rules have changed. We don't have to ask, we define what is real and what not."
There is another theory that this in fact is the truth.
true, and it has. Take a look at ORSN, when this news was discussed on heise.de (an influential IT-news service in Germany) many posters linked to that European Open Root Server Network.
(re: your signature: as a German I should love him, but who is Hasslehoff?)
no surprise there, I agree. As seen from outside the focus of US innovation seems to have shifted long since from science & technology to legal. While the former emphasises how whealth is produced the latter merely cares how it is shared. Or rather, not shared. This may be profitable for (some) single entities, it is not for whole.
at least in Germany. There still are lots of medium - sized PC traders ("box shifters") and when I go to buy a computer there I pick a base model, change power supply, hd, ram etc and the OS is just another of those features, if I want it I buy it, else: no problem. It's another story at the "media market"-type big retailers but I dont have to buy there and really, those who do won't want anything else but win* and in fact deserve to suffer from vista.
I stumbled over some industrial use of diatom earth quite some time ago, things like adding the stuff to color mixtures to give it the right viscosity. But the best is: it's used to filter the yeast out of beer. All those surreal 3d structures of the diatom skeleton (and TFA pictured an extremly boring one, they have thorns and what not) help to catch the yeast cells when thrown into a tank of mature beer, the diatom earth ("sand") slowly sinks to the bottom and takes most of the yeast cells with it. The beer is pumped off and put into bottles afterwards and the remaining goo goes to the waste or recycling. Which has to happen soon, if they wait to long (or in summer), the yeast sort of explodes running over the container it was put in and is hard to remove...
this is Gnu/Linux, and the fact that the term 'Linux' is quite often used as an abbrev of it has lead to many bitter comments and discussions, if I remeber correctly.
I've seen this quite a lot recently here, linking videos from the front page and they are in.wmv format. My fireFox doesnt show them, it offers to load a plugin, but fails to do so. I can go "manual" and it guides me to microsoft.com where I can some DRM-infested POS which doesnt like my OS etcetc.
Please, this is/. and not yahoo or msn, right? can we somehow convince our editors to stop standardising on microsoft orthodx video formats? thankx
> First impressions matter. It isn't fair, but it is true.
hm, with OSen first impressions have been long since forgotten when you really have reasons to to get angry. Like, trying to upgrade SuSE from 9.1 to 10.1 on a remote server. Or the versionitis (or lack of it!) after years of updates. How long will you have to wait for the most recent version of clamAV being available for your distro? How does this particular distro fare when it comes to strange keyboards and funny characters cause of exotic languages? An overwhelming majority of people on this planet use strange keyboards to write funny characters in exotic languages.
> Words like "boxen" and "headless" automatically take you out of the world of 99.9% of users.
99,9% is what dictators get as a vote, free people tend to diversify more. It's not an uncommon rheorical figure, but I always wonder what the 100% group of speakers using it might be: just themselves, the people the talk to every day, the peer group?
To be honest, you hit another thing here that I usually fail to understand: what is so great about being like 99,9% of the others?
sorry, this is a part of OSS culture I entirely fail to understand. Like, when there is a new version of distro X and some OS News sites have nothing better to report than a 15 pages of hires screenshots of the default desktop etc.
You mean you install a new distro and then judge its worth by the look of the default theme? You don't change the theme first thing? You don't know how to install a custom theme if you don't like the preconfigured choices?
But then again, my boxen run headless 98% of the time, so why should I care...
WordStar was 1985 for me, and some versions to follow until late 80s. I wrote my M.A. in it from 85 to 86. There was another app coming around these days, with an ridiculous menu system but some strength in page layout and much better equipped to work with huge texts and laser printers, ms word. Got it in version 4 at the end of the 80s, did an 800p travelguide to China with it in 1991, probably version 5 then. This was all dos-land, of course. We installed Windows 3.0 in ~1992, winword 1 was laughable but winword 2 wasn't that bad at all.
(I still have the floppies with all those old versions, and a 5 1/4 floppy drive, but installing drivers to read the 160KB media and all seems like quite an adventure. However, the first versions of WordStar I used weren't dos but cpm+ and I trashed hardware and media for that. must have been version 2.4 or something, in '85. cpm+ was so much better than cpm, no need anymore to reboot your machine with ctrl/C everytime you changed a disk. )
Thus, I have every reason to believe the grandparents time frame.
What a shame SuSE sold out to let itself be destroyed by Novell. I've been with SuSE for a long time, since 5.3, to be precise. After all, it was a German distro, for once defaults tended to be like I needed them, instead of always US orthodox. And SuSE had that very comfortable ftp-install option (instead of having to download an entire.iso I could load a mini boot.iso and then run the install over ftp, downloading only the files I actually needed. Less important now, but when 5.3 was fresh having an ISDN connection with 64kbits was the best of the affordable options and size did matter then.) And KDE instead of Gnome. A list of European ISPs to choose from when configureing dial-up instead of US providers not available here. etc. SuSE turned Novell and the first thing that changed was to ami-ify all the defaults and rebrand the thing. Next thing Novell got rid of a good number of key persons who had actually made SuSE. It was then that SuSE projects turned slow, like you could consider yourself lucky if clamAV for SuSE followed to the next version step before clamAV itself did even the next one. Time to explore alternatives for me. As of now there are just two boxen left running on Suse 9.3 and 10.0, and as soon as updates for those versions get discontinued, they will be moved to either k|x|ubuntu or debian like the other ones. After going down to Novell SuSE lost most of its sellingpoints for me, making deals with MS makes it even less attractive in my eyes.
Yes, but I feel at least one important factor is missing in it, he failed to mention the red dressed archangle Pamela and her heavenly troops who rose from nowhere to hit SCO's litigation with facts and research. http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2005 0515115448782
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you do this manually? Wow. You might want to take a look at denyhosts
I'm with you there, but the sorry truth is that w2k is now at the point where applications start to force the switch over to XP - vmware ie. runs so awfully bad on my w2k 2GB dualhead athlon 3800+ desktop I started to run the vms on an acer banyas laptop with just 1 GB amd XP. Games - well, don't really care for them, but they count in that category, too.
There is a theory that the day the soviet union ceased to exist after decades of cold war, some folks in the US started to believe that from now on all limits had gone. Multilateral treaties? Climate change? Geneva Convention? Any science with unwanted results? All those questions get answered like:
"We're an empire now, the rules have changed. We don't have to ask, we define what is real and what not."
There is another theory that this in fact is the truth.
true, and it has. Take a look at ORSN, when this news was discussed on heise.de (an influential IT-news service in Germany) many posters linked to that European Open Root Server Network.
(re: your signature: as a German I should love him, but who is Hasslehoff?)
The planet wouldnt have to much choice about it's preferred speed, if it does orbit a sun at some radius
no surprise there, I agree. As seen from outside the focus of US innovation seems to have shifted long since from science & technology to legal.
While the former emphasises how whealth is produced the latter merely cares how it is shared. Or rather, not shared.
This may be profitable for (some) single entities, it is not for whole.
to bad you posed it as an AC and then I just spent my last mod points.
This is exactly my experience.
at least in Germany. There still are lots of medium - sized PC traders ("box shifters") and when I go to buy a computer there I pick a base model, change power supply, hd, ram etc and the OS is just another of those features, if I want it I buy it, else: no problem.
It's another story at the "media market"-type big retailers but I dont have to buy there and really, those who do won't want anything else but win* and in fact deserve to suffer from vista.
Dell, Gateway, HP? Read about them...
I spent more than an hour reading about this and other finds on the homepage of one of the team who found that,
M.E.Brown
The Link has a animated model of the thing and a schematic of its structure that looks like candy..
I stumbled over some industrial use of diatom earth quite some time ago, things like adding the stuff to color mixtures to give it the right viscosity. But the best is: it's used to filter the yeast out of beer. All those surreal 3d structures of the diatom skeleton (and TFA pictured an extremly boring one, they have thorns and what not) help to catch the yeast cells when thrown into a tank of mature beer, the diatom earth ("sand") slowly sinks to the bottom and takes most of the yeast cells with it.
The beer is pumped off and put into bottles afterwards and the remaining goo goes to the waste or recycling. Which has to happen soon, if they wait to long (or in summer), the yeast sort of explodes running over the container it was put in and is hard to remove...
what about skype?
this is Gnu/Linux, and the fact that the term 'Linux' is quite often used as an abbrev of it has lead to many bitter comments and discussions, if I remeber correctly.
reminds me of that old sig:
The 3 most dangerous situations:
A hardware guy with a software patch.
A user with an idea.
A coder with an electric iron.
different markets, for sure. 1 button vs 75 buttons.
acer TravelMate 660, purchased in Germany, 2003: positive.
look up, this was posted already. And yes, it worked for me. Sort of satisfying to see a vulnerability consume itself
oh the irony...
I've seen this quite a lot recently here, linking videos from the front page and they are in
Please, this is
> First impressions matter. It isn't fair, but it is true.
hm, with OSen first impressions have been long since forgotten when you really have reasons to to get angry. Like, trying to upgrade SuSE from 9.1 to 10.1 on a remote server. Or the versionitis (or lack of it!) after years of updates. How long will you have to wait for the most recent version of clamAV being available for your distro? How does this particular distro fare when it comes to strange keyboards and funny characters cause of exotic languages? An overwhelming majority of people on this planet use strange keyboards to write funny characters in exotic languages.
> Words like "boxen" and "headless" automatically take you out of the world of 99.9% of users.
99,9% is what dictators get as a vote, free people tend to diversify more. It's not an uncommon rheorical figure, but I always wonder what the 100% group of speakers using it might be: just themselves, the people the talk to every day, the peer group?
To be honest, you hit another thing here that I usually fail to understand: what is so great about being like 99,9% of the others?
I guess the lame-filter ate the sarcasm-tags
sorry, this is a part of OSS culture I entirely fail to understand. Like, when there is a new version of distro X and some OS News sites have nothing better to report than a 15 pages of hires screenshots of the default desktop etc.
You mean you install a new distro and then judge its worth by the look of the default theme? You don't change the theme first thing? You don't know how to install a custom theme if you don't like the preconfigured choices?
But then again, my boxen run headless 98% of the time, so why should I care...
WordStar was 1985 for me, and some versions to follow until late 80s. I wrote my M.A. in it from 85 to 86. There was another app coming around these days, with an ridiculous menu system but some strength in page layout and much better equipped to work with huge texts and laser printers, ms word. Got it in version 4 at the end of the 80s, did an 800p travelguide to China with it in 1991, probably version 5 then. This was all dos-land, of course. We installed Windows 3.0 in ~1992, winword 1 was laughable but winword 2 wasn't that bad at all.
(I still have the floppies with all those old versions, and a 5 1/4 floppy drive, but installing drivers to read the 160KB media and all seems like quite an adventure. However, the first versions of WordStar I used weren't dos but cpm+ and I trashed hardware and media for that. must have been version 2.4 or something, in '85. cpm+ was so much better than cpm, no need anymore to reboot your machine with ctrl/C everytime you changed a disk. )
Thus, I have every reason to believe the grandparents time frame.
qualifies as entry for the ignoble prize competion, methinks.
What a shame SuSE sold out to let itself be destroyed by Novell. .iso I could load a mini boot.iso and then run the install over ftp, downloading only the files I actually needed. Less important now, but when 5.3 was fresh having an ISDN connection with 64kbits was the best of the affordable options and size did matter then.)
I've been with SuSE for a long time, since 5.3, to be precise.
After all, it was a German distro, for once defaults tended to be like I needed them, instead of always US orthodox.
And SuSE had that very comfortable ftp-install option (instead of having to download an entire
And KDE instead of Gnome. A list of European ISPs to choose from when configureing dial-up instead of US providers not available here. etc.
SuSE turned Novell and the first thing that changed was to ami-ify all the defaults and rebrand the thing. Next thing Novell got rid of a good number of key persons who had actually made SuSE. It was then that SuSE projects turned slow, like you could consider yourself lucky if clamAV for SuSE followed to the next version step before clamAV itself did even the next one. Time to explore alternatives for me.
As of now there are just two boxen left running on Suse 9.3 and 10.0, and as soon as updates for those versions get discontinued, they will be moved to either k|x|ubuntu or debian like the other ones.
After going down to Novell SuSE lost most of its sellingpoints for me, making deals with MS makes it even less attractive in my eyes.
Yes, but I feel at least one important factor is missing in it, he failed to mention the red dressed archangle Pamela and her heavenly troops who rose from nowhere to hit SCO's litigation with facts and research.5 0515115448782
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=200