I've never read the LotR books. I saw the cartoon movie of the first two books and was utterly confused by the ending. I never read the books because I always found the Hobbit to be a slow read. I thought the PJ's movies kicked some major ass. I intend to get the special edition DVDs, but I don't have any intention of reading the books, nor did I before seeing the movies. They are just too many scenes that I think would be ultra-slow to read through, and I don't like that.;)
My first exposure to Adams was as a child, seeing it on television in England. I didn't read the books until the past 5 years, and I think they were more enjoyable, because I had seen some of the TV stuff already. Anyone who wants to read the books still can. Anyone who wouldn't have read them anyways won't be missing out if they see the movie instead. Take a deep breath and relax.
Another reason is that, simply put, XFree86 produces unportable code. Tons of the porting work must be done by the Debian team itself, and that isn't easy. The fact that a lot of the code itself is crappy is an issue too.
I mentioned that in another post. XF86 4.3 on x86 is stable and has been for nearly a year. The x86 packages for debian unstable are, to the best of my knowledge, in a releasable state. They aren't being released because the upstream code from xfree86.org isn't stable on other platforms. When I worked at a company that had a tested, releasable prodcut that customers were asking for, and they refused to release it because they didn't see a market for it, I quit. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's ready, it works, we want it, give it to us!
Anyway, I'm tired of making this rant for now. I think I'll wait until the next debian discussion to revisit it.
Why? Because it would be pretty inefficient to not indicate the platform the bug was discovered on in the bug record. How else would the tester/developer know which platform to test? If that information is part of the record, then you are tracking that information. That's all I meant, I didn't mean you need separate databases.
Yeah. It just bugs me. A lot. The latest installer on the testing iso images (there is an official one one the debian web site), lets you pick which flavor you want to install. I'd be less irritated if it installed broken packages. But there's a text file somewhere that says gnome meta package includes abiword-common, abiword-gnome, and abiword-conflicts_with_abiword_gnome. It's such a stupid bug to have had in three spread out attempts. It's so dumb I just can't imagine how the maintainer didn't encounter it. In the end I got a working X install from tasksel by not selecting Desktop Environments, then installed synaptic, and in synaptic picking the gnome meta package selected all the individual ones. I was able to resolve the dependencies there by hand. But super annoying.
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why waste the bandwidth to get ALL of that crap when you only need select items anyway
Because only an instal of stable can be trusted to work out-of-box like that. The last three times I tried to install unstable on a workstation, I couldn't use tasksel to install the Desktop Environments package, because both the GNOME and KDE metapackages included conflicting packages (GNOME had a few conflicting abiword packages, and KDE I think had something to do with KOffice).
And yes, I reliase that this discussion should be focused on server installations, it's just one of my pet peeves about Debian.
I was under the impression the X 4.3 on x86 is ready to go (it's hovering in experimental), but is not being released until it is ready to go on all other platforms. The problem is, the upstream source does not work on all platforms. So a funcitoning, fully packaged release on one platform is being held up waiting for the maintainers of the project itself (vs the Debian package maintainers) to fix bugs on other platforms. I don't consider that to be quite the good sense that you do.
But it does a lot for the quality of a distribution to release it on all sorts of hardware. A lot of flaky intermittent bugs turn solid on one of those architectures.
That's a good point, but Debian's release policy has X on x86 practically a full year behind the current release because it's not stable on all the other platforms yet. I know I can get the experimental packages, but a current unstable install will give me nothing better than 8-bit color for 1024x768 on my laptop. Apparently releasing packages for each platform independently will cause too much confusion in the bug tracking system (which I think is bullocks, you have to track the bugs on each platform separately anyways).
Instead he just gets to stick KBE (Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) after his MCSE.
So when he plays air guitar, will we magically be able to hear it?
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I was going off what an earlier post had stated. But after your reply I checked the KOffice site, and it says this
Which license applies to KOffice?
KOffice is an open-source project and completely free. All licences are GPL-compatible, mostly GPL or LGPL version 2. Apart exceptions, libraries and filters are mostly LGPL, while applications are mostly GPL.
So Apple probably could write closed-source interfaces around the KOffice guts.
When you spill coffee on yourself, you wave your arms/jump around a bit from the pain, and end up cooling the coffee to a luke warm temperature. I can understand that this lady was older, but moving quickly is a natural reaction.
I used to work at a company where the CEO was Asim Saber (the first name is pronounced awesome). But he ruined it by actually implementing a suggestion out of dilbert (he hung a bell on the wall and said people should ring it when they have good ideas that they implement, and tell the group about the idea. The girl with the triangle hair then rung the bell and said she didn't strangle the CEO over the stupid idea.)
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Were Apple to do for Koffice what they did for Khtml, and why wouldn't they
As one poster already pointed out earlier, KHTML is LGPL, but KOffice is not. So Apple can't take the core of KOffice and build their own stuff around it without releasing it all under the GPL. With KHTML, they only released the changes to KHTML, but not the stuff built on top of it.
My point was that you can't accurately make that claim for the entire network, only for certain localities. For me, I've found regular cable more reliable. I also lived in MN for a while, and people I knew there found cable more reliable than satellite. I know that the installation I had was bad, but that's my point. You might have crappy cable infrastructure. Who knows, who cares? We each have the choice available and use whichever meets our needs best.;)
I have the exact opposite anecdotes, so don't treat you personal experience as the ultimate truth of the matter. I didn't even have an individual dish. My apartment complex had this retarded setup where SBC resold DirecTV. I'm not sure how they got the signal to the complex, some big antenna I think, but it was coax from the complex endpoint to my apartment. It would be out for 30 minutes when we hadn't even seen it rain yet. This is in the Austin, Tx, metro area.
If you give someone a burned DVD of all your MP3's, no one can track you.
Assuming you ripped the MP3's from media you own, then doing so is legal, and known as fair use. Although you may be expected to use the 'audio' media which has a levy built into the price.
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Am I the only one who reads "planning wiki" and thinks of some witch doctor type creature from Scooby Doo with a laptop covered in penguin stickers?
I don't think our current system is good, I think it sucks. I'm not saying being able to give an explicit vote of no for a candidate would be bad. I'm just saying that in such a system, I would not want a candidate with a negative net count to be put in office. If more people say no than yes, than that candidate can't be representative of the people. Perhaps a two stage vote, you vote yes/no for who each candidate on the ballot. Then from the ones you said yes for, you rank them. So when counting ballots, every candidate with more no votes than yes votes is taken out of consideration. Than from the remaining candidates, you have instant runoff voting.
If more people said they specifically do not want a candidate in office then that candidate should not be put in office. That hardly coincides with the will of the people. If you allow negative voting, it would have to be the candidate with the highest net count. Personally, I wouldn't approve of a system that gives different presidents different sets of power. I'd rather concentrate on making the election system more fair and representative.
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I've never read the LotR books. I saw the cartoon movie of the first two books and was utterly confused by the ending. I never read the books because I always found the Hobbit to be a slow read. I thought the PJ's movies kicked some major ass. I intend to get the special edition DVDs, but I don't have any intention of reading the books, nor did I before seeing the movies. They are just too many scenes that I think would be ultra-slow to read through, and I don't like that. ;)
My first exposure to Adams was as a child, seeing it on television in England. I didn't read the books until the past 5 years, and I think they were more enjoyable, because I had seen some of the TV stuff already. Anyone who wants to read the books still can. Anyone who wouldn't have read them anyways won't be missing out if they see the movie instead. Take a deep breath and relax.
I think you missed the point here. nVidia released BSD drivers so we can all watch it die in realtime at 248 fps in 1600x1200 on a 21" monitor!
If Darl is Ed and Tux is the teacher.
I mentioned that in another post. XF86 4.3 on x86 is stable and has been for nearly a year. The x86 packages for debian unstable are, to the best of my knowledge, in a releasable state. They aren't being released because the upstream code from xfree86.org isn't stable on other platforms. When I worked at a company that had a tested, releasable prodcut that customers were asking for, and they refused to release it because they didn't see a market for it, I quit. It just doesn't make sense to me. It's ready, it works, we want it, give it to us!
Anyway, I'm tired of making this rant for now. I think I'll wait until the next debian discussion to revisit it.
Why? Because it would be pretty inefficient to not indicate the platform the bug was discovered on in the bug record. How else would the tester/developer know which platform to test? If that information is part of the record, then you are tracking that information. That's all I meant, I didn't mean you need separate databases.
Yeah. It just bugs me. A lot. The latest installer on the testing iso images (there is an official one one the debian web site), lets you pick which flavor you want to install. I'd be less irritated if it installed broken packages. But there's a text file somewhere that says gnome meta package includes abiword-common, abiword-gnome, and abiword-conflicts_with_abiword_gnome. It's such a stupid bug to have had in three spread out attempts. It's so dumb I just can't imagine how the maintainer didn't encounter it. In the end I got a working X install from tasksel by not selecting Desktop Environments, then installed synaptic, and in synaptic picking the gnome meta package selected all the individual ones. I was able to resolve the dependencies there by hand. But super annoying.
don't you realise that slashdot is a DDoS worm?
Because only an instal of stable can be trusted to work out-of-box like that. The last three times I tried to install unstable on a workstation, I couldn't use tasksel to install the Desktop Environments package, because both the GNOME and KDE metapackages included conflicting packages (GNOME had a few conflicting abiword packages, and KDE I think had something to do with KOffice). And yes, I reliase that this discussion should be focused on server installations, it's just one of my pet peeves about Debian.
I was under the impression the X 4.3 on x86 is ready to go (it's hovering in experimental), but is not being released until it is ready to go on all other platforms. The problem is, the upstream source does not work on all platforms. So a funcitoning, fully packaged release on one platform is being held up waiting for the maintainers of the project itself (vs the Debian package maintainers) to fix bugs on other platforms. I don't consider that to be quite the good sense that you do.
That's a good point, but Debian's release policy has X on x86 practically a full year behind the current release because it's not stable on all the other platforms yet. I know I can get the experimental packages, but a current unstable install will give me nothing better than 8-bit color for 1024x768 on my laptop. Apparently releasing packages for each platform independently will cause too much confusion in the bug tracking system (which I think is bullocks, you have to track the bugs on each platform separately anyways).
So when he plays air guitar, will we magically be able to hear it?
So Apple probably could write closed-source interfaces around the KOffice guts.
She was seated in her car at the time.
I used to work at a company where the CEO was Asim Saber (the first name is pronounced awesome). But he ruined it by actually implementing a suggestion out of dilbert (he hung a bell on the wall and said people should ring it when they have good ideas that they implement, and tell the group about the idea. The girl with the triangle hair then rung the bell and said she didn't strangle the CEO over the stupid idea.)
As one poster already pointed out earlier, KHTML is LGPL, but KOffice is not. So Apple can't take the core of KOffice and build their own stuff around it without releasing it all under the GPL. With KHTML, they only released the changes to KHTML, but not the stuff built on top of it.
Get a clue!
get a clue yourself, Honda doesn't hold a monopoly position in the automotive market.
that's Trademark. I'm not sure for copyright, but patents can be enforced selectively without loosing them.
Who wants to go halfsies with me to patent "method for paying open source workers" on the web? We'll make a fortune!
My point was that you can't accurately make that claim for the entire network, only for certain localities. For me, I've found regular cable more reliable. I also lived in MN for a while, and people I knew there found cable more reliable than satellite. I know that the installation I had was bad, but that's my point. You might have crappy cable infrastructure. Who knows, who cares? We each have the choice available and use whichever meets our needs best. ;)
I have the exact opposite anecdotes, so don't treat you personal experience as the ultimate truth of the matter. I didn't even have an individual dish. My apartment complex had this retarded setup where SBC resold DirecTV. I'm not sure how they got the signal to the complex, some big antenna I think, but it was coax from the complex endpoint to my apartment. It would be out for 30 minutes when we hadn't even seen it rain yet. This is in the Austin, Tx, metro area.
Assuming you ripped the MP3's from media you own, then doing so is legal, and known as fair use. Although you may be expected to use the 'audio' media which has a levy built into the price.
Yep.
I don't think our current system is good, I think it sucks. I'm not saying being able to give an explicit vote of no for a candidate would be bad. I'm just saying that in such a system, I would not want a candidate with a negative net count to be put in office. If more people say no than yes, than that candidate can't be representative of the people. Perhaps a two stage vote, you vote yes/no for who each candidate on the ballot. Then from the ones you said yes for, you rank them. So when counting ballots, every candidate with more no votes than yes votes is taken out of consideration. Than from the remaining candidates, you have instant runoff voting.
If more people said they specifically do not want a candidate in office then that candidate should not be put in office. That hardly coincides with the will of the people. If you allow negative voting, it would have to be the candidate with the highest net count. Personally, I wouldn't approve of a system that gives different presidents different sets of power. I'd rather concentrate on making the election system more fair and representative.