Uhm, taking a longer time installing a Linux computer because you _had_ to have ATI video does NOT constitute downtime to me. Rebooting your computer because you've had it running a *week* long is downtime. Seriously.
Eugenia's claim to fame is that she's been writing about Linux desktops and distros for a long time. Not that she's very balanced or objective. To me, her reviews are allways very opinionated without really being to the point.
"Why is it that everyone is so focused on linux desktops, and not the core internals of the OS?"
Core internals? Hah, I know where you're from. So, a question for a question: where are all the Windows fanboys raving about the fantastic core internals of Vista? That is right.
"I hear many linux geeks whining about how bloated the windows vista system is"
You do? Well, it must be true than, eh? I remember geeks complaining about how bloated XP, 2000, ME, 98SE, 98 or KDE, Gnome, 2.6, 2.5, Red Hat, SuSE etc. etc. etc. is. So, when I hear someone complain about bloat, i don't take them serious, it really was the only thing they could think of. And it sounds really professional, like you actually only care about serious server-like stuff.
"Why do we then go and focus so much on the same aspects of linux?" Sorry, what's your beef??? I can't parse the logic of your comment. First you complain that linux geeks are preoccupied with Vista bloat, then you state we do the same with linux (or don't do the same)?
"I read the malloc man page, and the big memory mapping issue still remains, and as a result I still need to continually reboot to keep my ram defragmented....." Yeah, I read the same, you know how much work it is to keep that ram defragmented? I do it by hand(!!), can you believe how much work that is!
"...it was actually a leftover...she was built for Egypt, but Egypt went bankrupt before the statue was completed. She was originally to have a veil."
Well, the www.americanparknetwork.com seems to say this about it:
"Many people believed Charlotte Bartholdi (1801-1891) was the model for the statue. Others thought it was based on her son's early drawings for a never-commissioned statue in Egypt. The sculptor's true inspiration for his masterpiece remains a mystery."
So you probably pulled that veil-nonsense out of your ass.
Wow, now that is some information perfectly suited for misinformation. Where did you find this trollish link?
The missing context in your little piece is of course that land-ice is a product of snow. So thicker ice means more snow in Greenland. It doesn't mean that "global warming scaremongers" are wrong.
Waddyamean, default layout? Were you hoping for an alternative to a window, or did you expect to see a start button on the right side of the screen? Obviously, the linux desktop environments use square windows, have buttons lined out to the top-left and can be read from left to right. There are good reasons for that, and it is what (allmost) all GUIs share. However, it is the underneath part that is totally different, and it is that part that "self proclamed" Linux users (hmm, unfriendly are you?) like much better than Windows, and that is because it is often of better quality and design. Of course, you need to look beyond linux screenshots to "get" that.
As far as i know, hardly anybody today uses GPLv3 (if any). Most developers will probably stay with v2, as for the kernel developers (say Linus), they don't seem to like it.
Now that's funny. In my case it was Linux where the my (usb) printer installed flawless and Windows where installing it was your typical Windows repetitive driver hell.
And, uhm, actually the your post sounds like you wrote it in 2001 and just forgot to click "submit" for a very long time. Fonts on my computer have been looking better on Linux then on Windows for ages and ages now, and most hardware nowadays works. Yes, without bizarre results (makes me wonder though: how bizarre can these results get?). One thing i have to admit: i do get very little driver support, but of course i support myself.
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"but lack XSLT and Rich Text editing"
Of course. But that's mostly because you don't use konqueror for editing.
You got me wondering for a moment there: "Is he just very ironic?". But maybe, you really don't want to know about big brother.
It would be funny, if it weren't so sad...
"[he] just picked Nazi Germany out of a hat"
Probably, no. But Soviet Russia or any of its satelite states would have been a better comparison. The soviets also had a mighty and secretive state machine for spying on its own populace. And, what's more, the peoples of these countries were also hopelessly divided into factions that totaly didn't trust each other.
France did help Norway, just like Poland, Canada, England and the US are the countries that helped liberate the Netherlands. I guess no one helped the Netherlands at the time of the German invasion, but then again few armies put up a reasonable defense against the German Blitzkrieg at the time. And unfortunately the German Fallschermjäger (paratroopers) were a definite answer to the large scale strategic flooding the Netherlands used for defense at the time. But still, it took the massive bombardment of the city of Rotterdam and treats for more to break the Dutch resistance. Guess why you pissed me off...
And about that Quisling... well, I also think he is irrelevant. His action do not speak for the Norwegian people or Norway, but it makes for a good reproach (but not a fair one, I'll certainly give you that;-). But there you have it: no country got out off WWII with a completely clean conscience, that's war is like I suppose.
Yes, i recognize this.
If you are running 2000 or XP you may have your PC set to randomly reboot (which is the default). In XP right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". Click on "Advanced" tab. Under Startup and Recovery click on "Settings". Under System Failure clear the checkbox next to "Randomly Restart".
If you are running 2000 you'll have to find it yourself. It is somewhere under Properties for My Computer.
I have never used an anti-virus product on my Windows 2000 Pro or any other earlier Microsoft OS incarnation at home. But I,
(1) do keep it updated
(2) use a firewall for my ADSL
(3) don't use Explorer or any email program, in fact I try to disable as much of these as sensible
(4) don't download and try cuwl new apps
(5) use Windows only for games (and don't do online gaming)
(6) do _all_ my other and online stuff on Linux
In all, I feel that the number of attack vectors is minimized, here. And so I feel reasonable safe when being on the Windows desktop. And I have never seen a MS computer of mine infected since I started using MS-DOS 6.0 in 1992.
But obviously, such a setup is useless when you want to use Windows for anything else then gaming, but why would you want to do that?
I do see an enormous amount of malware coming in on email under Linux, however. And I would install an anti-virus app whenever I would be forced to use email under Windows. *shudder*
Ok, "I know you don't anti-virus because..." jokes, cue... now.
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Uhm, taking a longer time installing a Linux computer because you _had_ to have ATI video does NOT constitute downtime to me. Rebooting your computer because you've had it running a *week* long is downtime. Seriously.
Eugenia's claim to fame is that she's been writing about Linux desktops and distros for a long time. Not that she's very balanced or objective. To me, her reviews are allways very opinionated without really being to the point.
A real woman in other words...
Ducks...
"Why is it that everyone is so focused on linux desktops, and not the core internals of the OS?"
Core internals? Hah, I know where you're from. So, a question for a question: where are all the Windows fanboys raving about the fantastic core internals of Vista? That is right.
"I hear many linux geeks whining about how bloated the windows vista system is"
You do? Well, it must be true than, eh? I remember geeks complaining about how bloated XP, 2000, ME, 98SE, 98 or KDE, Gnome, 2.6, 2.5, Red Hat, SuSE etc. etc. etc. is. So, when I hear someone complain about bloat, i don't take them serious, it really was the only thing they could think of. And it sounds really professional, like you actually only care about serious server-like stuff.
"Why do we then go and focus so much on the same aspects of linux?" Sorry, what's your beef??? I can't parse the logic of your comment. First you complain that linux geeks are preoccupied with Vista bloat, then you state we do the same with linux (or don't do the same)?
"I read the malloc man page, and the big memory mapping issue still remains, and as a result I still need to continually reboot to keep my ram defragmented....." Yeah, I read the same, you know how much work it is to keep that ram defragmented? I do it by hand(!!), can you believe how much work that is!
Well, the www.americanparknetwork.com seems to say this about it:
"Many people believed Charlotte Bartholdi (1801-1891) was the model for the statue. Others thought it was based on her son's early drawings for a never-commissioned statue in Egypt. The sculptor's true inspiration for his masterpiece remains a mystery."
So you probably pulled that veil-nonsense out of your ass.Wow, now that is some information perfectly suited for misinformation. Where did you find this trollish link?
The missing context in your little piece is of course that land-ice is a product of snow. So thicker ice means more snow in Greenland. It doesn't mean that "global warming scaremongers" are wrong.
What do you expect, it's a Roland P. story with a mention of global warming. That seems to turn the most sane /.ers into raving trolls.
"They're just trying to incite large-scale war at any price."
Now I get it, that is why the US invaded Iraq.
"It's possible (though not much fun) to simulate grep with a for loop."
Yup, you got me disturbed...
Waddyamean, default layout? Were you hoping for an alternative to a window, or did you expect to see a start button on the right side of the screen? Obviously, the linux desktop environments use square windows, have buttons lined out to the top-left and can be read from left to right. There are good reasons for that, and it is what (allmost) all GUIs share. However, it is the underneath part that is totally different, and it is that part that "self proclamed" Linux users (hmm, unfriendly are you?) like much better than Windows, and that is because it is often of better quality and design. Of course, you need to look beyond linux screenshots to "get" that.
So you can pull some obscure registry-like hack out off your hat? No thanks.
Wadyamean? "*A* central question" as in "a very, very, very, unimportant question"?
I think the man just said: questions about "god" are *NOT* central to philosophy
jeez...
As far as i know, hardly anybody today uses GPLv3 (if any). Most developers will probably stay with v2, as for the kernel developers (say Linus), they don't seem to like it.
Ok, I'll bite: why?
And, uhm, actually the your post sounds like you wrote it in 2001 and just forgot to click "submit" for a very long time. Fonts on my computer have been looking better on Linux then on Windows for ages and ages now, and most hardware nowadays works. Yes, without bizarre results (makes me wonder though: how bizarre can these results get?). One thing i have to admit: i do get very little driver support, but of course i support myself.
"but lack XSLT and Rich Text editing"
Of course. But that's mostly because you don't use konqueror for editing.
You got me wondering for a moment there: "Is he just very ironic?". But maybe, you really don't want to know about big brother.
It would be funny, if it weren't so sad...
Oh sure. Very, very insightfull.
"[he] just picked Nazi Germany out of a hat"
Probably, no. But Soviet Russia or any of its satelite states would have been a better comparison. The soviets also had a mighty and secretive state machine for spying on its own populace. And, what's more, the peoples of these countries were also hopelessly divided into factions that totaly didn't trust each other.
Damn right! Those bastards should have carpet bombed the States.
What has boot time to do with responsiveness? And what has DOS to do with runlevel 3??? You really make me wonder about your perspective now.
And you're an economist? Back to school, Toby!
France did help Norway, just like Poland, Canada, England and the US are the countries that helped liberate the Netherlands. I guess no one helped the Netherlands at the time of the German invasion, but then again few armies put up a reasonable defense against the German Blitzkrieg at the time. And unfortunately the German Fallschermjäger (paratroopers) were a definite answer to the large scale strategic flooding the Netherlands used for defense at the time. But still, it took the massive bombardment of the city of Rotterdam and treats for more to break the Dutch resistance. Guess why you pissed me off...
And about that Quisling... well, I also think he is irrelevant. His action do not speak for the Norwegian people or Norway, but it makes for a good reproach (but not a fair one, I'll certainly give you that ;-). But there you have it: no country got out off WWII with a completely clean conscience, that's war is like I suppose.
Now please have a look at that text again and then try to involve your brain...
Ready? I'll bet it looks wrong now, somehow. Now begone before I mention Quisling.
Jeez.
Sorry...
(1) do keep it updated
(2) use a firewall for my ADSL
(3) don't use Explorer or any email program, in fact I try to disable as much of these as sensible
(4) don't download and try cuwl new apps
(5) use Windows only for games (and don't do online gaming)
(6) do _all_ my other and online stuff on Linux
In all, I feel that the number of attack vectors is minimized, here. And so I feel reasonable safe when being on the Windows desktop. And I have never seen a MS computer of mine infected since I started using MS-DOS 6.0 in 1992.
But obviously, such a setup is useless when you want to use Windows for anything else then gaming, but why would you want to do that?
I do see an enormous amount of malware coming in on email under Linux, however. And I would install an anti-virus app whenever I would be forced to use email under Windows. *shudder*
Ok, "I know you don't anti-virus because..." jokes, cue... now.