are you still crying? You already shed your precious tears in the first post of this story.
Look, it takes me an hour to know for sure weather something works in Linux or not. Sometimes it might take the next day if I need to contact some driver maintaners, etc.
If it takes you 10 days to do something I consider trivial, then don't use Linux. It's not for you.
You do realize that lack of competition stagnates innovation, right?
As an example, why has Miscrosoft only recently started active development with Internet Explorer?
I can assure you that if Firefox had not come along, you wouldn't be hearing about new IE developments such as integrated tab browsing and full PNG support.
And small and medium sized software companies produce crap that shouldn't be in the industry. That's my point.
Tell me then, how does a small company become a large one if, by your words, small companies produce crap? How do you think Apple Computer or even Microsoft got started? You're way off base here.
You could easily make all your playlists "smart playlists", and therefore tell all of your regular music playlists to not include Audiobook files, and tell your audiobook playlists to not include music files. You can do the separation by using an id3tag editor and tag all your audiobook files to Vocal or something similar.
Smart playlists is a very powerful tool. Take advantage of it.
And frankly, I feel like I had a helluva lot more rights then, than I do now.
No doubt about that.
The Americans are having their freedoms stripped away from them little by little, but they are so unaware. If only the American fore-fathers could see them now; they would be shaking their heads in disbelief that the American public can so easily dismiss what they themselves have worked so hard for.
People, you realize that once a tiny bit of freedom is taken from you, you never get it back. Not ever. All of these tiny bits are adding up to quite a lot. Now, citizens in both Europe and Eastern Europe have more freedoms than the USA.
And frankly, I feel like I had a helluva lot more rights then, than I do now.
No doubt about that.
The Americans are having their freedoms stripped away from them little by little, but they are so unaware. If only the American fore-fathers could see them now; they would be shaking their heads in disbelief that the American public can so easily dismiss what they themselves have worked so hard for.
People, you realize that once a tiny bit of freedom is taken from you, you never get it back. Not ever. All of these tiny bits are adding up to quite a lot. Now, citizens in both Europe and Eastern Europe have more freedoms than the USA. How sad.
Windows users should be familiar with this method of installing someting.
(somehow, it feels like MS has a whole room full of hired goons just to sit and troll slashdot topics like these and everything else).
I used to despise MS and their products. But now it's so strange! Sometimes I'm forced to use winXP (over at a friends, etc) and when I do, I'm feeling genuine pity for MS and the users that have to deal with their garbage products.
I'm so sick of this "Linux has no security updates!" FUD.
One interesting thing to note: You might notice that MS patches stuff only after a known exploit has been found in the wild. With Linux distros, it's usually the opposite. The patching happens before it can be taken advantage of.
If you installed Fedora Core 3 and wanted to update it to the newest version, you'd have a butload of updating to do also.
Slip in FC4 CD, click on Upgrade, wait and reboot. Yeah, real tough stuff. Windows users better not try this at home.
One major difference between installers is that with Fedora, your hard drive paritioning is all automatic. Sure you can drop to fdisk and do it manual if you want, but Fedora does a great job and auto-paritioning your drive.
WinXP makes users manually create and size their own partitions. This is totally unacceptable.
And last, once winXP is installed, you're only 25% done. Now you get to run all over the internet, finding drivers, rebooting after each one. Wait! There's more! Then you get to run the Updater which will make you reboot your machine an additional 10 times.
And then, here's the fun part. Then you realize, after all your work of installing winXP, that during bootup, there's an odd pause somewhere during the bootup process. Crap, you probably should have installed Office only after the updates, or was it before the anti-virus/anti-spyware software? Who knows, how about reformatting and trying again. You probably have to do it again anyways, seeing that your machine was infected while downloading the service pack 2 firewall...
I just don't get this. People standing up on a soapbox and proclaiming that Debian is stable compared to the other distros is the same as a Pepsi executive claiming that their drink is fizzy compared to other soft drinks.
I have worked extensively with Debian and other distro types (mainly Fedora and Redhat), and I just don't see this stability difference that people claim.
On the other hand, I do like it when my server distro supports some brand new gigabit ethernet adapter or some advanced routing capability. kernel 2.2? For servers? You're joking, right?
So people don't get confused that I might be trolling, I'm not saying Debian sucks. I'm just saying that it's not any better than the rest.
Ubuntu is more of a desktop, latest updates type distro, while Debian is a strong, server type distro. So which do you need, depends on if you want a desktop or server, make your choice.
Or you can run Fedora and have the best of both worlds. I use Fedora for both critical high-availability servers as well as on everyone's desktop. Fedora is no less stable than Debian. Period.
I couldn't agree more. I have had my Linuxfund MBNA card for nearly 4 years now and use it extensively (it's my #1 used credit card). It's amazing to see how many Finns recognize Tux while traveling thru Finland:) It has also helped me land Linux related sysadmin contracts by flashing it at IT managers during an interview.
That said, and considering that a tiny percentage of that money was donated by me, I also vote that this money should go towards Linux kernel development.
Just because you may not have the balls to stand up and announce to the world what you think is right doesn't mean you should ridicule or belittle those who do.
Both the Linux kernel and the GNU tools are essential for an operating system.
Though he may be eccentric at times, I wholeheartedly applaud Richard Stallman and what his efforts have provided to the rest of the world (for free as in freedom and beer, I might add).
Why the younger generation open source enthusiasts continue to badger Mr. Stallman is beyond me. Shame on you.
First of all, any person that talks about 'hits per day' isn't someone who works with high traffic websites. To folks like us, it's all about page views, uniques and sometimes impressions.
we have 4 admins for the mysql servers. What the hell for?
each has a hotswapable copy of the entire system running at another data center. with proper failover, this is pointless and wasteful.
Cron static pages off the database when possible I couldn't agree more.
I'm doing on average of 250k page views per day. My website is heavily database driven (all reads, almost no writes, but with some complex queries). Here are the specs: Connection: Dual Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps) fiber-optic connections to AboveNet and XO Communications. 2.4GHz single processor P4. 1GB RAM mysql-4.1.3 php-4.3.8 Apache/2.0.51
I'm doing more traffic than you, and it's all done on a single processor, single machine. This machine is so bored, the load never breaks 0.10.
I actually have another machine ready to act as a secondary webserver, but I just don't need it! Right now, I'm just using it for backups and failover.
Well thank God America isn't in control of the Internet!
No matter how much control, how many laws, how many overbearing policies are slapped on the Internet, there will always be an underground.
The only people these new laws and forms of control will stop are folks like my dad. It is no different than using software protection to help stop piracy; only average joes are affected.
You know, I didn't have the fever, but my parents and friends thought that I should. So, for my birthday (in 1982), one present was a Pacman Atari 2600 cartridge, another was Buckner & Garcia's music CD of video game songs, another was a Pacman t-shirt, etc.
jeez, to this day I will never forget that song, "Do the Donkey Kong". So lame, but so unforgetful.
Why do you think there are so many DEB based distros out there today? Because Debian is free? So is Fedora, isn't it? Maybe it's the packaging is better than RPM.
Why do you think there are so many RPM based distros out there today? Because Fedora is free? So is Debian, isn't it? Maybe it's(sic) the packaging is better than DEB.
Why are all the RPM based distros shipping with their own cobbled version of apt-get? How is RPM based apt-get cobbled? Please explain.
Why didn't Gentoo use RPM? Gentoo didn't use DEB, either. Your point?
Slackware still isn't RPM based and they are doing well enough thank you. Slackware was around long before RPM. Again, your point?
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The googlebar firefox extension does exactly what you describe.
I am interested to know what additional features this new firefox toolbar offers that googlebar can't already do.
are you still crying? You already shed your precious tears in the first post of this story.
Look, it takes me an hour to know for sure weather something works in Linux or not. Sometimes it might take the next day if I need to contact some driver maintaners, etc.
If it takes you 10 days to do something I consider trivial, then don't use Linux. It's not for you.
...I want and settle back to do something "useful" with my time.
Linux isn't for everyone. It's obviously not for you. Stop using it. Yes, it's that simple.
Having a private super-computer in your garage would give you the power to decrypt standard government encryption (still at 56bit?).
It's similar to having a cache of firearms in your garage; expect a visit from the government who wants to know what you're doing with it.
Isn't it possible that you, like most every human being on this planet, are afraid of change?
Isn't it possible that you, unlike most every human being on this planet, are afraid of free enterprise?
Did I just feed another troll? Sheesh, someone stop me please.
You do realize that lack of competition stagnates innovation, right?
As an example, why has Miscrosoft only recently started active development with Internet Explorer?
I can assure you that if Firefox had not come along, you wouldn't be hearing about new IE developments such as integrated tab browsing and full PNG support.
And small and medium sized software companies produce crap that shouldn't be in the industry. That's my point.
Tell me then, how does a small company become a large one if, by your words, small companies produce crap? How do you think Apple Computer or even Microsoft got started? You're way off base here.
That we'd have better cars and planes and drugs today if the patent system wasn't around?
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The difference between cars/planes and books/code are too different to lump together in some comparison (especially an unproven one).
Taking Stallman's example, why do you think that patent law has not been applied to novels?
If you can answer that question, then you should be able to answer the question on why it patent law should not be applied to software code.
You could easily make all your playlists "smart playlists", and therefore tell all of your regular music playlists to not include Audiobook files, and tell your audiobook playlists to not include music files.
You can do the separation by using an id3tag editor and tag all your audiobook files to Vocal or something similar.
Smart playlists is a very powerful tool. Take advantage of it.
And frankly, I feel like I had a helluva lot more rights then, than I do now.
No doubt about that.
The Americans are having their freedoms stripped away from them little by little, but they are so unaware. If only the American fore-fathers could see them now; they would be shaking their heads in disbelief that the American public can so easily dismiss what they themselves have worked so hard for.
People, you realize that once a tiny bit of freedom is taken from you, you never get it back. Not ever. All of these tiny bits are adding up to quite a lot. Now, citizens in both Europe and Eastern Europe have more freedoms than the USA.
And frankly, I feel like I had a helluva lot more rights then, than I do now.
No doubt about that.
The Americans are having their freedoms stripped away from them little by little, but they are so unaware. If only the American fore-fathers could see them now; they would be shaking their heads in disbelief that the American public can so easily dismiss what they themselves have worked so hard for.
People, you realize that once a tiny bit of freedom is taken from you, you never get it back. Not ever. All of these tiny bits are adding up to quite a lot. Now, citizens in both Europe and Eastern Europe have more freedoms than the USA. How sad.
Hey may be referring to the fact that some drivers such as nVidia require you to compile the kernel to use them.
compile the kernel? What the hell are you smoking?
You need to compile a module that's based on your kernel. Sound tough? Here's the process.
1. Run executable file.
2. Click next.
3. Click next.
4. Click finish.
Windows users should be familiar with this method of installing someting.
(somehow, it feels like MS has a whole room full of hired goons just to sit and troll slashdot topics like these and everything else).
I used to despise MS and their products. But now it's so strange! Sometimes I'm forced to use winXP (over at a friends, etc) and when I do, I'm feeling genuine pity for MS and the users that have to deal with their garbage products.
I'm so sick of this "Linux has no security updates!" FUD.
One interesting thing to note: You might notice that MS patches stuff only after a known exploit has been found in the wild. With Linux distros, it's usually the opposite. The patching happens before it can be taken advantage of.
Which do you prefer?
If you installed Fedora Core 3 and wanted to update it to the newest version, you'd have a butload of updating to do also.
Slip in FC4 CD, click on Upgrade, wait and reboot. Yeah, real tough stuff. Windows users better not try this at home.
One major difference between installers is that with Fedora, your hard drive paritioning is all automatic. Sure you can drop to fdisk and do it manual if you want, but Fedora does a great job and auto-paritioning your drive.
WinXP makes users manually create and size their own partitions. This is totally unacceptable.
And last, once winXP is installed, you're only 25% done. Now you get to run all over the internet, finding drivers, rebooting after each one. Wait! There's more! Then you get to run the Updater which will make you reboot your machine an additional 10 times.
And then, here's the fun part. Then you realize, after all your work of installing winXP, that during bootup, there's an odd pause somewhere during the bootup process. Crap, you probably should have installed Office only after the updates, or was it before the anti-virus/anti-spyware software? Who knows, how about reformatting and trying again. You probably have to do it again anyways, seeing that your machine was infected while downloading the service pack 2 firewall...
Ah, there it is. It appears that you have issues with Redhat that are way beyond the scope of "is their product worth using".
Good job, you just invalidated every biased post you made in this topic.
I just don't get this. People standing up on a soapbox and proclaiming that Debian is stable compared to the other distros is the same as a Pepsi executive claiming that their drink is fizzy compared to other soft drinks.
I have worked extensively with Debian and other distro types (mainly Fedora and Redhat), and I just don't see this stability difference that people claim.
On the other hand, I do like it when my server distro supports some brand new gigabit ethernet adapter or some advanced routing capability. kernel 2.2? For servers? You're joking, right?
So people don't get confused that I might be trolling, I'm not saying Debian sucks. I'm just saying that it's not any better than the rest.
Ubuntu is more of a desktop, latest updates type distro, while Debian is a strong, server type distro. So which do you need, depends on if you want a desktop or server, make your choice.
Or you can run Fedora and have the best of both worlds. I use Fedora for both critical high-availability servers as well as on everyone's desktop. Fedora is no less stable than Debian. Period.
I couldn't agree more. I have had my Linuxfund MBNA card for nearly 4 years now and use it extensively (it's my #1 used credit card). It's amazing to see how many Finns recognize Tux while traveling thru Finland :) It has also helped me land Linux related sysadmin contracts by flashing it at IT managers during an interview.
That said, and considering that a tiny percentage of that money was donated by me, I also vote that this money should go towards Linux kernel development.
I think you missed my point.
Both the Linux kernel and the GNU tools are essential for an operating system.
One without the other is an incomplete operating system.
Just because you may not have the balls to stand up and announce to the world what you think is right doesn't mean you should ridicule or belittle those who do.
Both the Linux kernel and the GNU tools are essential for an operating system.
Though he may be eccentric at times, I wholeheartedly applaud Richard Stallman and what his efforts have provided to the rest of the world (for free as in freedom and beer, I might add).
Why the younger generation open source enthusiasts continue to badger Mr. Stallman is beyond me. Shame on you.
First of all, any person that talks about 'hits per day' isn't someone who works with high traffic websites. To folks like us, it's all about page views, uniques and sometimes impressions.
we have 4 admins for the mysql servers.
What the hell for?
each has a hotswapable copy of the entire system running at another data center.
with proper failover, this is pointless and wasteful.
Cron static pages off the database when possible
I couldn't agree more.
I'm doing on average of 250k page views per day. My website is heavily database driven (all reads, almost no writes, but with some complex queries). Here are the specs:
Connection: Dual Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps) fiber-optic connections to AboveNet and XO Communications.
2.4GHz single processor P4.
1GB RAM
mysql-4.1.3
php-4.3.8
Apache/2.0.51
I'm doing more traffic than you, and it's all done on a single processor, single machine. This machine is so bored, the load never breaks 0.10.
I actually have another machine ready to act as a secondary webserver, but I just don't need it! Right now, I'm just using it for backups and failover.
whoops, make that cassette.
Well thank God America isn't in control of the Internet!
No matter how much control, how many laws, how many overbearing policies are slapped on the Internet, there will always be an underground.
The only people these new laws and forms of control will stop are folks like my dad. It is no different than using software protection to help stop piracy; only average joes are affected.
Yep, I had the Pac-Man fever as a kid as well.
You know, I didn't have the fever, but my parents and friends thought that I should. So, for my birthday (in 1982), one present was a Pacman Atari 2600 cartridge, another was Buckner & Garcia's music CD of video game songs, another was a Pacman t-shirt, etc.
jeez, to this day I will never forget that song, "Do the Donkey Kong". So lame, but so unforgetful.
Why make it so hard on yourself?
To change root's password in Linux, simply boot up in single user mode and type passwd at the prompt.
Why do you think there are so many DEB based distros out there today? Because Debian is free? So is Fedora, isn't it? Maybe it's the packaging is better than RPM.
Why do you think there are so many RPM based distros out there today? Because Fedora is free? So is Debian, isn't it? Maybe it's(sic) the packaging is better than DEB.
Why are all the RPM based distros shipping with their own cobbled version of apt-get?
How is RPM based apt-get cobbled? Please explain.
Why didn't Gentoo use RPM?
Gentoo didn't use DEB, either. Your point?
Slackware still isn't RPM based and they are doing well enough thank you.
Slackware was around long before RPM. Again, your point?