I live in Howard County, but hadn't heard anything about this before now. It's kindof exciting though -- I'll be taking a trip to the library later today to test drive this setup.
This is a disturbing quote, why should you restrict the life of hundred of thousands of people? Because multi-multi-millions are involved, I think not.
It has a data front-end that can be plugged into a backend database
That is precisely what a database client is.
Or are we working under an alternate definition of *client*?
In fact I have used the database client in OO.o to connect to MySQL and found it really quite nice. (Though not terribly intuitive) Claiming there is no database client is a lie. There is no bundled DB-like application, but thats a different issue.
State: It's very simple. Buy more games and tell the industry that you're buying that game to play on Linux.
I totally agree. The single biggest hinderance to seeing more games running natively on linux is the perception (and likely fact) that there's no money in it. It's for this reason that I subscribe to Transgaming, Bought Neverwinter Nights (and sent them a letter explaining why I picked their game and thanking them), and have copies of games from (some defunct) companies that I dont even play, but whose development I thought it was important to support.
Unfortunately the article does little more than play the part of OS-War Meteorologist, but there was one quote we can sink our teeth into, according to Steve Ballmer:
"In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000," he said, "there were 17 critical vulnerabilities. For Windows Server 2003, there were four. For Red Hat Linux 6, they were five to ten times higher."
Now I'm going to figure that he's saying there were somewhere between 20-40 'critical' vunerabilities in Redhat 6 in the first 150 days post release.
I assume that the reason he's picked Redhat Linux 6 for this comparison is that it was the release which moved to glibc 2.1, and migrated to the 2.0 kernel. So he's picked a big move for Redhat, instead of a point release. This isn't entirely fair (in fact its hard to draw a close comparison on security issues) due to the fact that Redhat 6.0 was released in April of 1999, whereas windows 2000 wasnt released until February of the following year. Furthermore Microsoft (wisely) relied heavily on a certain "Break into Windows 2000" campaign to test the hell out of that OS. (remember the guestbook on that server? what a riot)
Finally, comparing Redhat 6 to Windows 2003 is outright foolish. We may as well compare a freshly patched Redhat 7.3 to NT Service Pack 2 (though even this is an unfair analogy, 7.3 is far more stable than Win3k server).
Seriously... the review is written like a 10th grade book report. "I could find song X, but I couldn't find song Y. And when I tried to play song Z, it played some weird song by Loverboy. I was like OMG!!1!"
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On the Linux side, I think you'll find much of what you need included in your Mandrake distribution. A brief list of things to look for:
1. Open Office (Excellent, though I find myself using gnumeric for alot of spreadsheet things still) 2. The Gimp (You'll always need to edit graphics) 3. Evolution (This is all I ever use anymore for email) 4. GAIM (Assuming you'll do instant messaging) 5. Transgaming WineX or Crossover Office (Even though you wont be doing primarily gaming, this is a handy way to make wine useable) 6. Firebird / Galeon or Mozilla (I used to use galeon, but I use Firebird now, it's excellent.) 7. XMMS (Because everyone needs music) 8. MySQL with the ODBC connection stuff properly configured with OpenOffice - this is lovely when you get it working.
For your Windows system, the list looks suprisingly similar. I still prefer GAIM to avoid all the advertising, OpenOffice to avoid paying nearly $1000 for the Microsoft alternative, Firebird would be nice but Evolution isn't available, so you may consider either Thunderbird or the full Mozilla suite. The Gimp for graphics, cause Photoshop doesnt offer that much more for the $800 price tag.
On a related note, since you are setting this up new, I would consider Red Hat 9 instead of mandrake. I used mandrake myself until Red Hat 8 came out, but I have been very impressed by the work they've done in making updates painless through the Red Hat Network tool, and in bringing a nice polish to both Gnome and KDE. Kudos!
Finally, whatever you do, put the box behind a firewall and save yourself alot of grief.
Slander is spoken. Libel is written. He's guilty of libel.
While Libel refers specifically to written, published defamatory statements, and slander is used from a legal standpoint to refer to such communicated orally; slander is also generally used in a broader sense to refer to any combination of such abuse. In this case, McBride is guilty of both forms of defamation primarily in the form of interviews, tele-conferences and public presentations. Hence, slander is probably the best word to describe the majority of his acts.
If he had only begun to carry on this way in this letter, Libel might be a better word.
AFAH/WG, the PowerPC is even more open than x86-64 or IPF, having two chip vendors (IBM and Moto) while the latter have one each (AMD and Intel) only.
AFAS/WG, the same holds true: the PowerPC runs GNU/Linux and BSD just fine, besides Apple's semi-proprietary Mac OS X instead of MS's completely proprietary Windows; the Hurd is being ported, there is Amiga-derived MorphOS and the AmigaOS itself.
This is all well and good, but If I want to go out and buy an Opteron today, I can go to Pricewatch, find several vendors of CPU/Mobo combos and take my pick of configuration, motherboard manufacturer, etc. If I want to go out and buy a G5, I can pony up the $$$ for a Powermac, or sit on my hands until there are options actually produced by someone else. I have yet to see anyone doing this.
I'd love (Really and truely love) to see some options in this regard. If you can point me to them, I'd be thankful. But until I see otherwise, G5=Apple to me.
You make a good point (actually several people have said similar things). I guess the most important thing to me will be which chipset (G5/Opteron/Other) will have the best support among motherboard and other hardware manufacturers. Traditionally the x86 family has been the hands-down leader in this regard, and if the trend continues I dont see myself migrating to another architecture anytime soon.
When the performance only varies by a few percent, the cost and availability will totally make the decision for me.
Far more interested in the progress and development of AMD's Opteron line than all this G5 stuff? I mean, dont misunderstand. I'm excited about desktop 64 bit computing, but I really dont want to be locked into a whole platform. These benchmarks really say to me that the G5 is ok, a little better, but you've gotta go all apple to get it.
And there are some interesting things on the list... for example, one of the biggest problems I had with my former graduate school: TA's teaching upper level courses. And my former school is on that list.
I think that virtual worlds are entirely capable of standing on their own merits and do not need to be considered credible by the academic arts to be worthy.
Having played on and assisted in development of a host of muds for over 10 years (ranging from old diku and lp based all the way through EQ, Planetscape, etc...) I would agree 100%. There is no substitute for 'Fun Factor' in a mud. In fact the more reasonable and sensable (our world like) a mud becomes, the less interesting I find it.
Of course, your right. But it's so much more fun to take the fact that microsoft.com was reported running linux by netcraft at face value. Besides, technically they are making use of linux within the chain of information delivery, and doing so of their own volition. I still kinda think thats worth giggling about.
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But still, a closer date for Doom III means a closer date for Quake IV and all the other games that will be based on its engine.
As for me, FarCry is still blowing my mind.
Mostly for entering product keys.
I live in Howard County, but hadn't heard anything about this before now. It's kindof exciting though -- I'll be taking a trip to the library later today to test drive this setup.
Way to go HCPL!
welcome our new infectious shower-curtain overlords.
That is to say, I'll remember not to dress any wounds with strips of my shower curtain.
What a dumb story.
This is a disturbing quote, why should you restrict the life of hundred of thousands of people? Because multi-multi-millions are involved, I think not.
It worked for slave-owners.
It has a data front-end that can be plugged into a backend database
That is precisely what a database client is.
Or are we working under an alternate definition of *client*?
In fact I have used the database client in OO.o to connect to MySQL and found it really quite nice. (Though not terribly intuitive) Claiming there is no database client is a lie. There is no bundled DB-like application, but thats a different issue.
State: It's very simple. Buy more games and tell the industry that you're buying that game to play on Linux.
I totally agree. The single biggest hinderance to seeing more games running natively on linux is the perception (and likely fact) that there's no money in it. It's for this reason that I subscribe to Transgaming, Bought Neverwinter Nights (and sent them a letter explaining why I picked their game and thanking them), and have copies of games from (some defunct) companies that I dont even play, but whose development I thought it was important to support.
Just keep supporting the folks doing a good job.
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This is funny to me. I consider myself a "regular" computer/Internet user. I don't see the need to download 2100 messages as part of my "daily tasks".
Join the Fedora Mailing list...
Unfortunately the article does little more than play the part of OS-War Meteorologist, but there was one quote we can sink our teeth into, according to Steve Ballmer:
"In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000," he said, "there were 17 critical vulnerabilities. For Windows Server 2003, there were four. For Red Hat Linux 6, they were five to ten times higher."
Now I'm going to figure that he's saying there were somewhere between 20-40 'critical' vunerabilities in Redhat 6 in the first 150 days post release.
I assume that the reason he's picked Redhat Linux 6 for this comparison is that it was the release which moved to glibc 2.1, and migrated to the 2.0 kernel. So he's picked a big move for Redhat, instead of a point release. This isn't entirely fair (in fact its hard to draw a close comparison on security issues) due to the fact that Redhat 6.0 was released in April of 1999, whereas windows 2000 wasnt released until February of the following year. Furthermore Microsoft (wisely) relied heavily on a certain "Break into Windows 2000" campaign to test the hell out of that OS. (remember the guestbook on that server? what a riot)
Finally, comparing Redhat 6 to Windows 2003 is outright foolish. We may as well compare a freshly patched Redhat 7.3 to NT Service Pack 2 (though even this is an unfair analogy, 7.3 is far more stable than Win3k server).
In sum: Bah.
Seriously... the review is written like a 10th grade book report. "I could find song X, but I couldn't find song Y. And when I tried to play song Z, it played some weird song by Loverboy. I was like OMG!!1!"
bah.
Uh huh...
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No thanks, buddy...
Been done - reference:
Unobtainium.
The official suppliers website
and according to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, both Bowman and Doggit have some of it, and the U.S. is none too pleased.
On the Linux side, I think you'll find much of what you need included in your Mandrake distribution. A brief list of things to look for:
1. Open Office (Excellent, though I find myself using gnumeric for alot of spreadsheet things still)
2. The Gimp (You'll always need to edit graphics)
3. Evolution (This is all I ever use anymore for email)
4. GAIM (Assuming you'll do instant messaging)
5. Transgaming WineX or Crossover Office (Even though you wont be doing primarily gaming, this is a handy way to make wine useable)
6. Firebird / Galeon or Mozilla (I used to use galeon, but I use Firebird now, it's excellent.)
7. XMMS (Because everyone needs music)
8. MySQL with the ODBC connection stuff properly configured with OpenOffice - this is lovely when you get it working.
For your Windows system, the list looks suprisingly similar. I still prefer GAIM to avoid all the advertising, OpenOffice to avoid paying nearly $1000 for the Microsoft alternative, Firebird would be nice but Evolution isn't available, so you may consider either Thunderbird or the full Mozilla suite. The Gimp for graphics, cause Photoshop doesnt offer that much more for the $800 price tag.
On a related note, since you are setting this up new, I would consider Red Hat 9 instead of mandrake. I used mandrake myself until Red Hat 8 came out, but I have been very impressed by the work they've done in making updates painless through the Red Hat Network tool, and in bringing a nice polish to both Gnome and KDE. Kudos!
Finally, whatever you do, put the box behind a firewall and save yourself alot of grief.
Slander is spoken. Libel is written. He's guilty of libel.
While Libel refers specifically to written, published defamatory statements, and slander is used from a legal standpoint to refer to such communicated orally; slander is also generally used in a broader sense to refer to any combination of such abuse. In this case, McBride is guilty of both forms of defamation primarily in the form of interviews, tele-conferences and public presentations. Hence, slander is probably the best word to describe the majority of his acts.
If he had only begun to carry on this way in this letter, Libel might be a better word.
$0.02 down the drain.
Now Mel Gibson will have a method of distributing The Passion.
They wouldn't have copies of internal Microsoft email.
And I'm a fool.. That should have been Asimo.
*slaps self*
can he play soccer? If so I wanna see him vs. Abio.
AFAH/WG, the PowerPC is even more open than x86-64 or IPF, having two chip vendors (IBM and Moto) while the latter have one each (AMD and Intel) only.
AFAS/WG, the same holds true: the PowerPC runs GNU/Linux and BSD just fine, besides Apple's semi-proprietary Mac OS X instead of MS's completely proprietary Windows; the Hurd is being ported, there is Amiga-derived MorphOS and the AmigaOS itself.
This is all well and good, but If I want to go out and buy an Opteron today, I can go to Pricewatch, find several vendors of CPU/Mobo combos and take my pick of configuration, motherboard manufacturer, etc. If I want to go out and buy a G5, I can pony up the $$$ for a Powermac, or sit on my hands until there are options actually produced by someone else. I have yet to see anyone doing this.
I'd love (Really and truely love) to see some options in this regard. If you can point me to them, I'd be thankful. But until I see otherwise, G5=Apple to me.
You make a good point (actually several people have said similar things). I guess the most important thing to me will be which chipset (G5/Opteron/Other) will have the best support among motherboard and other hardware manufacturers. Traditionally the x86 family has been the hands-down leader in this regard, and if the trend continues I dont see myself migrating to another architecture anytime soon.
When the performance only varies by a few percent, the cost and availability will totally make the decision for me.
Far more interested in the progress and development of AMD's Opteron line than all this G5 stuff? I mean, dont misunderstand. I'm excited about desktop 64 bit computing, but I really dont want to be locked into a whole platform. These benchmarks really say to me that the G5 is ok, a little better, but you've gotta go all apple to get it.
Just my pennies.
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And there are some interesting things on the list... for example, one of the biggest problems I had with my former graduate school: TA's teaching upper level courses. And my former school is on that list.
Bah...
I think that virtual worlds are entirely capable of standing on their own merits and do not need to be considered credible by the academic arts to be worthy.
Having played on and assisted in development of a host of muds for over 10 years (ranging from old diku and lp based all the way through EQ, Planetscape, etc...) I would agree 100%. There is no substitute for 'Fun Factor' in a mud. In fact the more reasonable and sensable (our world like) a mud becomes, the less interesting I find it.
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As of 2.4 it looks like there were approximately 3.4 Million lines of code in the kernel See Here.
So roughly 1/3 of linux is directly copied from unix? Gimme a break.
Of course, your right. But it's so much more fun to take the fact that microsoft.com was reported running linux by netcraft at face value. Besides, technically they are making use of linux within the chain of information delivery, and doing so of their own volition. I still kinda think thats worth giggling about.