...the Open Source movement, which has some impressive strengths and has produced some significant accomplishments. Every article that does not favor OSS, Linux, etc. always includes such a disclaimer. How else to appear unbiased?
Example: You dress nicely, however, you're ugly, dirty, smell bad, need to brush your teeth more, need take a shower at least once a month, and you have an all-around awful personality. But let me repeat, you dress nicely.
Also, Sanchez points out "...the elephant in the living room, seldom mentioned by OS advocates, is that the programmers must be supported somehow." Ummm.... technical support? How about customizing software for a specific customer? Extra features? Many do that. Helping a company set up your product is usually very profitable. Example: Amazon using Red Hat? Sure, they could have downloaded Red Hat onto CDs... but they opted to have Red Hat employees help set everything up, and of course have ongoing technical support.
Beyond this, a model that depends on free riding by corporations, individuals, and governments is not likely to be sustainable. See above paragraph.
One last little rant: "btw"? How many real writers use abbreviations like that? (He used it while talking about academicians)
I like what the FSF does, but sometimes it is to the advantage of a programmer to retain the copyright. But is the FSF going to be able to respond to ALL problems? (I'm not saying that it doesn't now, because I don't know. Just hypothetical)
Hopefully they discuss what to do when licenses are violated, such as a company incorporating GPL'd code into their closed software. This may seem easy - sue them - but how many people coding under the GPL have the finances to sue?
And, while we're at it, why not discuss the friendly DMCA and how it has helped open source development.
If you want to distribute modified versions of qmail (including ports, no matter how minor the changes are) you'll have to get my approval. (from here)
I agree that that may be a pain, but I don't know, and am not in a position to find out, whether someone bothered to ask Bernstein or not (and yes, I do understand his reasons for being picky). I haven't yet had a chance to actually look through the package info of the qmail port from that site, but does anyone know if it is patched too much that Bernstein wouldn't allow it?
And... just because some "flock of narrow-minded OS zealots" says something's good, it must really be bad? After all, enthusiasm itself is a bad thing, right? I agree that many times people blatantly bash non-OSS products just because source code wasn't included, but have you (Coward) ever tried a different browser? Or are you too narrow-minded to try out other products?
So, IE is better because it does not include tabbed browsing, excellent cookie management, selective/smart/total pop-up ad blocking, mouse gestures, customizable default stylesheets, different themes, image loop control, smaller memory footprint, faster rendering (in many cases), and many other features?
I refer you to (available in Windows and Linux): Phoenix Mozilla Opera (by the way, proprietary, but good just the same)
They sued some customers for giving bad (honest) reviews of their service. Not exactly the same, but hey, who wants to take on Microsoft in legal battles or fun audits?
How do I determine which browser I am using? Windows From your browser, go to the Help menu and choose "About...." A screen will appear showing which browser and version you are using.
"A regime change took place (George W. Bush was appointed President of the United States, with a non-trivial amount of financial assistance from Microsoft and its employees" (emphasis added)
If you want people to take you seriosuly, cut the liberal crap about the election. Argue the facts. You can talk about politics, just don't go off topic while doing so. Talk all you want about campaign donations and the like, not about a disputed election that has since been resolved.
If you read the information on the site, the Phoenix guys say specifically that they do not want to add many unnecessary features into the browser. For people who want features, there are XPI extensions (extensions being the key word)
I'm glad Yahoo is moving to OSS and recognizes the dangers of proprietary software.
Ummm.... I'm all for open source, but this software is used within their company, and no matter what language they use, they don't need or have a reason to release it.
And, last time I checked, the langauge doesn't make a difference as to whether the end product is open source or not. Take the Linux kernel for instance. What language is it written in? Under what compiler is it compiled? What licensing scheme does it use? Answer those and tell me how writing C programs is proprietary and using PHP is Open Source... And, is there some clause I don't know about in PHP that says you must release the source code?
And remember: Proprietary != bad, especially when a company uses the proprietary code for their own use, even if the end result gets displayed publicly.
BTW, I use PHP and some C to serve pages on my web server. The C programs run so much faster, but are of course much harder to maintain. And yes, I use Perl scripts to maintain the server
it does what I want and its what the world uses um....sounds to me like "Everyone's doing it, why shouldn't I?"
I can kiss my kharma good bye for this one can't because I have original ideas can't [sic (double negative)] I? Isn't that the idea of the bandwagon? You don't have to think for yourself, just hop on, so why do you need your own "original" ideas?
And... Windows for $6? How did it get so cheap? Your tuition that could have been spent elsewhere...
Also, Microsoft has been declared by the U.S. government to be a monopoly, not showing a "sign of a monopoly" as you say.
-- notepad: the most stable and secure M$ product ever...
obviously YOU are not a web designer....and if you are, you spend way too much time translating...
How many people in the US are going to use NON-ENGLISH braille readers? Last time I checked, the ADA is a law in the US... (Of course, that hasn't stopped the RIAA & MPAA before...)
Actually, maybe M$ is trying to get some hackers interested in their overpriced, yet worthless products (look Ma, I got my brand new XP. They even help me to not break copyright law! I even get a Passport with it!)
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry about that. I really messed that one up...
...the Open Source movement, which has some impressive strengths and has produced some significant accomplishments.
Every article that does not favor OSS, Linux, etc. always includes such a disclaimer. How else to appear unbiased?
Example:
You dress nicely, however, you're ugly, dirty, smell bad, need to brush your teeth more, need take a shower at least once a month, and you have an all-around awful personality. But let me repeat, you dress nicely.
Also, Sanchez points out "...the elephant in the living room, seldom mentioned by OS advocates, is that the programmers must be supported somehow."
Ummm.... technical support? How about customizing software for a specific customer? Extra features? Many do that. Helping a company set up your product is usually very profitable. Example: Amazon using Red Hat? Sure, they could have downloaded Red Hat onto CDs... but they opted to have Red Hat employees help set everything up, and of course have ongoing technical support.
Beyond this, a model that depends on free riding by corporations, individuals, and governments is not likely to be sustainable.
See above paragraph.
One last little rant: "btw"? How many real writers use abbreviations like that? (He used it while talking about academicians)
I like what the FSF does, but sometimes it is to the advantage of a programmer to retain the copyright. But is the FSF going to be able to respond to ALL problems? (I'm not saying that it doesn't now, because I don't know. Just hypothetical)
* Open Source Licenses and other Legal Issues
Hopefully they discuss what to do when licenses are violated, such as a company incorporating GPL'd code into their closed software. This may seem easy - sue them - but how many people coding under the GPL have the finances to sue?
And, while we're at it, why not discuss the friendly DMCA and how it has helped open source development.
If you want to distribute modified versions of qmail (including ports, no matter how minor the changes are) you'll have to get my approval.
(from here)
I agree that that may be a pain, but I don't know, and am not in a position to find out, whether someone bothered to ask Bernstein or not (and yes, I do understand his reasons for being picky). I haven't yet had a chance to actually look through the package info of the qmail port from that site, but does anyone know if it is patched too much that Bernstein wouldn't allow it?
How about a chapter explaining how to get Theo to include perfectly good ports into the official ports tree?
"Experimental" (in other words: Unofficial) OpenBSD ports that Theo won't include... such as qmail
I used to used festival, and I believe that you could simply pipe data to it
I can't remember the exact command, but I think it was:
echo Hello there | festival --tts
Unfortunately, it always took a while to start...
Oh ye of little faith...
Windows bugs on google
Searched the web for windows bugs. Results 1 - 100 of about 1,690,000. Search took 0.38 seconds.
Not sure what you meant by that, but same with Windows...
Never mind...
I believe that this should work, but haven't tested it yet:
In you're XF86Config file, add (or uncomment) the line:
Option "Dont Zoom"
Hope this works
And... just because some "flock of narrow-minded OS zealots" says something's good, it must really be bad? After all, enthusiasm itself is a bad thing, right? I agree that many times people blatantly bash non-OSS products just because source code wasn't included, but have you (Coward) ever tried a different browser? Or are you too narrow-minded to try out other products?
So, IE is better because it does not include tabbed browsing, excellent cookie management, selective/smart/total pop-up ad blocking, mouse gestures, customizable default stylesheets, different themes, image loop control, smaller memory footprint, faster rendering (in many cases), and many other features?
I refer you to (available in Windows and Linux):
Phoenix
Mozilla
Opera (by the way, proprietary, but good just the same)
Petswarehouse.com
They sued some customers for giving bad (honest) reviews of their service. Not exactly the same, but hey, who wants to take on Microsoft in legal battles or fun audits?
This is worth a good laugh...
How do I determine which browser I am using?
Windows
From your browser, go to the Help menu and choose "About...." A screen will appear showing which browser and version you are using.
"A regime change took place (George W. Bush was appointed President of the United States, with a non-trivial amount of financial assistance from Microsoft and its employees" (emphasis added)
If you want people to take you seriosuly, cut the liberal crap about the election. Argue the facts. You can talk about politics, just don't go off topic while doing so. Talk all you want about campaign donations and the like, not about a disputed election that has since been resolved.
Other than this, I agree with your comments.
Didn't Dennis Rodman get married like this and then get it anulled because he was drunk?
Acronymfinder.com is a good place to look for this kind of thing.
If you read the information on the site, the Phoenix guys say specifically that they do not want to add many unnecessary features into the browser. For people who want features, there are XPI extensions (extensions being the key word)
Of course Galeon had them first! Which one has been around longer? However, Phoenix does have better pop-up blocking (site by site).
As for the "page freshness," in Phoenix (0.4) just hit Ctrl+i (or Tools->Page Info, or R-Click->View Page Info), and look at the field "modified"
Phoenix also starts faster and loads pages faster in less memory.
I'm glad Yahoo is moving to OSS and recognizes the dangers of proprietary software.
Ummm....
I'm all for open source, but this software is used within their company, and no matter what language they use, they don't need or have a reason to release it.
And, last time I checked, the langauge doesn't make a difference as to whether the end product is open source or not. Take the Linux kernel for instance. What language is it written in? Under what compiler is it compiled? What licensing scheme does it use? Answer those and tell me how writing C programs is proprietary and using PHP is Open Source... And, is there some clause I don't know about in PHP that says you must release the source code?
And remember:
Proprietary != bad, especially when a company uses the proprietary code for their own use, even if the end result gets displayed publicly.
BTW, I use PHP and some C to serve pages on my web server. The C programs run so much faster, but are of course much harder to maintain. And yes, I use Perl scripts to maintain the server
http://www.petswarehouse.com got hit for a few days for sueing several customers:
/dev/null http://www.petswarehouse.com/; done
Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues.
Remember, it is a bad idea to type the following:
while true; do wget -O
and do not email pet@Petswarehouse.com
it does what I want and its what the world uses
um....sounds to me like "Everyone's doing it, why shouldn't I?"
I can kiss my kharma good bye for this one can't because I have original ideas can't [sic (double negative)] I?
Isn't that the idea of the bandwagon? You don't have to think for yourself, just hop on, so why do you need your own "original" ideas?
And...
Windows for $6? How did it get so cheap? Your tuition that could have been spent elsewhere...
Also, Microsoft has been declared by the U.S. government to be a monopoly, not showing a "sign of a monopoly" as you say.
--
notepad: the most stable and secure M$ product ever...
obviously YOU are not a web designer. ...and if you are, you spend way too much time translating...
How many people in the US are going to use NON-ENGLISH braille readers? Last time I checked, the ADA is a law in the US...
(Of course, that hasn't stopped the RIAA & MPAA before...)
Actually, maybe M$ is trying to get some hackers interested in their overpriced, yet worthless products (look Ma, I got my brand new XP. They even help me to not break copyright law! I even get a Passport with it!)