One problem with Nano is its limited Undo/Redo. Perhaps a better option is JOE. I've never really used JOE, but it appears to be able to use a Pico (what Nano was originally based on) mode as well as an Emacs mode.
...now why on earth would a Slackware user build a new package for 4.0.2 when 4.0.3 is installed by default? And if, for instance, the user opted initially to install a lean system without screen, it would be rather easy to download the official package. Or, just type 'slackpkg install screen' (assuming that the user has installed extra/slackpkg).
We want users like that using linux because if they can migrate easily, that will disrupt the monopoly standing of Microsoft. Should they be using Debian or Slackware? Maybe not.
Ubuntu was made with them in mind, so if it fails... well, it fails. There are still enough things wrong with Ubuntu (and with the market's opinion of driver compatibility) that people who aren't devout Geeks are likely to turn away. If their (probably moderately expensive) printer/scanner doesn't work or if they have to edit their xorg.config for things to work as they might otherwise expect, I entirely can't say I blame them.
That being said, if we want to upset the balance of power so that there isn't a monopolist serving us the #1 OS, serving users who don't want to fight their OS to get their hardware to work is an important step. If you don't like automation, use Slackware. The Ubuntu forums will probably really miss you.
$30,000 isn't really the absurd low-ball estimate you apologize for. The median US wage for workers above the age of 16 for 2007 was $36,140. This disregards discrepancies for sex, age, and occupation. source.
Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.
In open source there is no such thing as a third party or second party, anyone and I mean absolutely anyone... that contributes to open source software is a first rate party.
Ah, to hell with it all, let's just party!
Unless you're saying that all open source contributers are themselves the party. Now that's just dirty. Not my thing, you see. I guess, well, maybe if they really are first rate.
CDDL allowed people like FreeBSD and Apple to use the cool technology in OpenSolaris like ZFS & DTrace. It's a happy-fun-sharing license. GPL won't let you play nice with the other children. Um, no, not quite. CDDL allows FreeBSD and Apple to use things like ZFS and DTrace with very similar freedoms -- and responsibilities -- to the GPL. It is almost the same sort of happy-fun-sharing license as the GPL. The essential difference is not a matter of the "viral clause" because they both have it. The difference lies in the fact that CDDL insists on certain things regarding patents; and being a different license than the GPL, it's a sticky point to mix the two on the same system.
In short, CDDL and GPL let you play almost exactly as nicely with the other children... just not with each other.
Their sister company, Semen Electronics (Guaranteed to come faster!) is a flop. If you click on the link to http://semen-electronics.com/, it gives some error. Maybe they need some Viagra or herbal supplements.
In the interest of checking, a simple whois request on 34.60.236.180 does in fact come up with the Halliburton Company of Houston, TX. Similarly, a whois for 55.2.86.54 shows the US Army.
I don't know if MS is actually selling out to the US military or to Halliburton, but if the screenshots are doctored, they are, at least well researched.
I haven't used rPath or any of the other Conary-based systems, but I think this is what they're designed for... basically creating custom distributions with a web-based package management system.
I have seen this a few times in the last several months. On the other hand, I've had several of the new apps fail on me upon install (I blame NoScript).
it shits you? i have two further questions: why did you let it digest you in the first place?...and would you please wash yourself off? that's disgusting.
How would it be helpful at all if lightweight environments such as Fluxbox or Icewm join an office-suite file format alliance? The only reason KDE is involved here is that they have an office suite -- KOffice -- integrated into their desktop environment. The more lightweight environments don't have integrated office suites, so I find it a little odd to think about them needing, much less wanting, to join an alliance devoted to office suites.
It would be something like a website devoted to a popular rock band with a prominent mention that it a part of a soccer referee web ring. Who cares?
Then Linux came along... and ever since then it has been the beginning of the end for Microsoft
I get it now: it's not the *nix family that's dead, it's Microsoft!
Although I use Debian for similar reasons, I think you missed the point of the article. The article's point was more similar to the notion that anyone with physical access to your CPU can have access to the data stored on its hard drives. Major web apps that handle a lot of sensitive and personal data do so in ways that treat speed and convenience as more important than security.
Put another way, if I was a tech support employee for your small company with an web store, if I have shell access to the server that stores personal data for your customers, then it very well may not be too hard for me to access that data. The person you hired to design your pages, you know, the one you gave the password to because you were away on vacation that week, she might also not have to work too hard to access that sensitive data.
The article read to me like it was an ad for digital vaulting. Not sure how adding another password to the boss's sticky-note laden monitor is going to help security, myself, but maybe it would be useful.
The news is only the latest in the software giant's plans to rely more on advertising. Microsoft also plans to offer more advertising-related software, particularly now that MSN is being folded into the platform development group, Hadley said. For example, the company already sells a version of Microsoft Money that has advertisements in it, he said.
Why the fuck would someone want to purchase a MS product, only to be shown advertisements in it?
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One problem with Nano is its limited Undo/Redo. Perhaps a better option is JOE. I've never really used JOE, but it appears to be able to use a Pico (what Nano was originally based on) mode as well as an Emacs mode.
Yeah, I expect Obama to be a staunch defender of the 2nd amendment.
...and if the only part of the Constitution to matter was the Second Amendment, there is a chance that Palin could be a better choice.
you killed my father. prepare to die?
Are you asking me or threatening me?
...now why on earth would a Slackware user build a new package for 4.0.2 when 4.0.3 is installed by default? And if, for instance, the user opted initially to install a lean system without screen, it would be rather easy to download the official package. Or, just type 'slackpkg install screen' (assuming that the user has installed extra/slackpkg).
I can't echo that enough. Maybe I'm less man than most. Maybe more.
We want users like that using linux because if they can migrate easily, that will disrupt the monopoly standing of Microsoft. Should they be using Debian or Slackware? Maybe not.
Ubuntu was made with them in mind, so if it fails... well, it fails. There are still enough things wrong with Ubuntu (and with the market's opinion of driver compatibility) that people who aren't devout Geeks are likely to turn away. If their (probably moderately expensive) printer/scanner doesn't work or if they have to edit their xorg.config for things to work as they might otherwise expect, I entirely can't say I blame them.
That being said, if we want to upset the balance of power so that there isn't a monopolist serving us the #1 OS, serving users who don't want to fight their OS to get their hardware to work is an important step. If you don't like automation, use Slackware. The Ubuntu forums will probably really miss you.
$30,000 isn't really the absurd low-ball estimate you apologize for. The median US wage for workers above the age of 16 for 2007 was $36,140. This disregards discrepancies for sex, age, and occupation. source.
fortune upon login yesterday:
Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.
...there's a process that is inferior to emacs?
Ah, to hell with it all, let's just party!
Unless you're saying that all open source contributers are themselves the party. Now that's just dirty. Not my thing, you see. I guess, well, maybe if they really are first rate.
What's the Advantage to that?
In short, CDDL and GPL let you play almost exactly as nicely with the other children... just not with each other.
Their sister company, Semen Electronics (Guaranteed to come faster!) is a flop. If you click on the link to http://semen-electronics.com/, it gives some error. Maybe they need some Viagra or herbal supplements.
Man, Microsoft is always behind the times! Slackware reached version 7 in 1999!
In the interest of checking, a simple whois request on 34.60.236.180 does in fact come up with the Halliburton Company of Houston, TX. Similarly, a whois for 55.2.86.54 shows the US Army.
I don't know if MS is actually selling out to the US military or to Halliburton, but if the screenshots are doctored, they are, at least well researched.
Check out the whois records for 34.60.236.180 and 55.2.86.54 yourself.
I haven't used rPath or any of the other Conary-based systems, but I think this is what they're designed for... basically creating custom distributions with a web-based package management system.
I have seen this a few times in the last several months. On the other hand, I've had several of the new apps fail on me upon install (I blame NoScript).
it shits you? i have two further questions: why did you let it digest you in the first place? ...and would you please wash yourself off? that's disgusting.
Will this be released Zuner than longho-- I mean Vista?
...if you're happy with what you've got, why switch? If SUSE has something you want, and Fedora can't offer the same, why not switch?
It would be something like a website devoted to a popular rock band with a prominent mention that it a part of a soccer referee web ring. Who cares?
where it lowers the threshold for oral sex, it'll raise it for anal sex...
Then Linux came along ... and ever since then it has been the beginning of the end for Microsoft
I get it now: it's not the *nix family that's dead, it's Microsoft!
Although I use Debian for similar reasons, I think you missed the point of the article. The article's point was more similar to the notion that anyone with physical access to your CPU can have access to the data stored on its hard drives. Major web apps that handle a lot of sensitive and personal data do so in ways that treat speed and convenience as more important than security.
Put another way, if I was a tech support employee for your small company with an web store, if I have shell access to the server that stores personal data for your customers, then it very well may not be too hard for me to access that data. The person you hired to design your pages, you know, the one you gave the password to because you were away on vacation that week, she might also not have to work too hard to access that sensitive data.
The article read to me like it was an ad for digital vaulting. Not sure how adding another password to the boss's sticky-note laden monitor is going to help security, myself, but maybe it would be useful.
The news is only the latest in the software giant's plans to rely more on advertising. Microsoft also plans to offer more advertising-related software, particularly now that MSN is being folded into the platform development group, Hadley said. For example, the company already sells a version of Microsoft Money that has advertisements in it, he said.
Why the fuck would someone want to purchase a MS product, only to be shown advertisements in it?