Yeah and an even more informed Mac user would actually spend some time making the native UI for Mozilla, instead of sniveling about how it's not supported. Unfortunately, Mac users just want things done for them, and have no initiative to better an application for their own fucking operating system. In this, Mac and Windows users are the same. Both passively waiting for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to give it to them up the ass cause they're too fucking lazy, instead of finding an operating system where they are free to choose, cooperate, and contribute.
Do you think Mark Yim would do a slashdot interview? I think that would be the coolest interview ever (besides the Woz one). Please contact him, CmdrTaco/Hemos! Preeze! Pretty pretty preeze!
When a man does evil, i.e. unethical business and monopolistic practices, knows he is doing evil, straight out lies and denies he is doing any evil... well how much closer than to evil can he be?
BTW, IANAC, but "it is easier for a man to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into heaven". I really doubt you will be having that cup of coffee with Mr. Gates, in this lifetime or the next.
I'm wondering if you ever bothered reading my post. Nowhere did I say that I even used Linux as a desktop or that it was better than Windows. I said, Windows 2000 is not as stable as acclaimed, has colossal hardware requirements, is annoying as hell, and breaks backwards compatibility. SO I WENT BACK TO WINDOWS 98. I do use Linux at home, but just as a ip masquerading server, not as a desktop.
YES I have used Windows 2000. Not only did it run like a pig on my K6-2 450 96MB RAM, but it crashed on the very first day. Linux, on the other hand, has never had a single crash on this machine.
The rumors that Windows 2000 is suddenly amazingly stable is pure bullshit.
Linux will never dominate the world, but I believe Open Source will. Look at all the open source projects currently being developed, Mozilla, AbiWord, GIMP, etc. These projects are all open source and can easily be recompiled on different platforms. Therefore world domination is not a dominance of One operating system, but rather freedom, through open source, to choose which operating system you prefer.
Linux is making great strides in the desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc), but I don't believe it will ever make it to Joe Dumbass's desktop. However, there are a few windows-superior candidates that ARE designed for Joe Dumbass: BeOS and MacOS X come to mind. Once open source projects reach a critical mass (I'm keeping an eye on Mozilla, Jabber, and any office suites myself), by virtue of being open source, they will be ported to any number of platforms, including these excellent desktop environments. Hell, even the Amiga might make a comeback when applications are no longer OS-specific.
Let linux remain as a server and workstation for power users. Don't try to make it do everything at once. That's what ruined Windows. Rather let the road of cooperation, currently being paved by the open source revolution, enable other OSs to fill the niche.
(Damn I just set a personal record on the # of times I said buzzword "open source" in one post).
IANAL or a law student or anything remotely resembling either. But I notice that many of the open source projects have been started by students in their spare time to help them learn more about programming. The GIMP and Linux are prime examples. Perhaps OpenLaw needs to attract more law students, while not being full lawyers, could both use and contribute to this resource in helping them learn. I'm not sure how likely this would be, but it would be nice to see a law school that requires their students participate in one OpenLaw case as a requisite for graduation.
You know I installed W2K about a week ago and I was excited, I kept reading about how everyone said it didn't need reboots. Let me tell everyone now: that is the biggest lie ever. True, you don't reboot when you add or change the IP address of your W2K workstation/server. That is because in the networking properties you can add another DUN-type icon (similar to ethx:x interfaces). However, try changing the workgroup for your W2K professional! Curiously, a message will pop up saying "Please hit OK to restart or hit cancel to do it later". And this isn't the only case, it will reboot in every case that NT4 ever had to.
In other words, DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT FALL FOR THIS LIE SPREAD BY MS AND THEIR TROLLS! Windows 2000 is not a complete rewrite of NT4 nor is it completely revamped. In fact, the first day I ran it, what do you know? IE5.5 crashed on me, though W2K was able to recover, all my running apps were now missing from the starbar and traybar. Task manager brought them up, but there was no way to bring it to the foreground so I had to end the tasks and start my apps over again. I uninstalled W2K a few days later and will stick to Win98 for my gaming needs. Despite crashing frequently, Win98 at least doesn't run horrendously slow on my 64MB ram like Win2K does.
GPL restricts closed source programs/companies from using GPL source code. Isn't this guy doing something similar? I favor GPL over the BSD license myself, but it seems to me that this is clearly an example that shows that GPL may not actually be as "free" as many people think, it's actually quite restrictive. But perhaps as RMS (and this guy now) realized, in a world full of licenses and copyrights and patents, you have to play by their rules. Fight fire with fire. Remember the United States had to win freedom by firearms, they had to give up their own cranky individualism temporarily in order to form an organization capable of defeating the british army. IMHO.
If indeed Jesus did rise from the grave. Did not certain christian mainstream-repressed gnostic texts that were discovered (dead sea scrolls) contain references that it was not Jesus who was crucified but his twin, while the real Jesus sat up in a scene laughing and watching the scene?
You said: "A little rough on the RC church aren't we? That being said, you have a point here it is often stated as the Liar, Lunatic, Lord hypothesis. Jesus was either wrong because he is lying, wrong because he is crazy, or dead on. There is not a balance, a midpoint."
There is no balance, no midpoint may lie in the likely possibility that Jesus was misinterpreted and censored to give Jesus and Christianity such an absolutist flavor. The proof lies in the discovery of the Nag Hammadi (Dead Sea scrolls) and other documents. The early roman catholic church did indeed censor and modify the (then) current christian texts in order to remove all ambiguity and give christianity the absolutist flavor we see today (Jesus is either right or wrong, believe he is wrong and go to hell!).
This article was very informative overall. I found particularly interesting the bit about Transmeta asking for a new set of benchmarks that takes into account efficiency as well as performance.
If Transmeta could afford to hire Linus Torvald's to create a Mobile Linux for their CPU, why couldn't they hire someone to create benchmarks for their CPU? That leads me to wonder, are there any good open source benchmarking programs? Perhaps if an open source one became popular, it would be easily modified to do benchmarking for new processors like this.
The Win2k test site is one being tested against HACKERS. I think those comments you copied and pasted do not represent the general Linux crowd at all, but rather the kind of script kiddies that would be attracted to something like a win2k test site. Please stop spreading FUD.
CDE is just plain too old guys. My school comp labs used to "standardize" on CDE, but I guess even they figured out CDE is not going anywhere. It's pretty much old, shitty, and slow. A step above twm but not much.
After this summer, we have KDE installed on all the Sparcstations =). Everything looks so much nicer, even though the hardware is the same, it looks like they did a major upgrade to all the computers. Plus KDE comes installed with a shitload of applications and games. Now everyone has stopped using the NT machines so they can play games on the Sparcs. KDE has truly revolutionized the Unix desktop experience.
For those who say CDE is the only viable solution for running on "thousands of desktops".. well you obviously haven't tried KDE yet, have you?
Has anyone had this problem, everything is rock stable w/ running X on LinuxPPC on iMac rev C. However, once I run XMMS, it will lock up the whole computer (no keyboard,mouse,telnet) in anywhere from one to ten hours. Do I need the latest kernel or their updated "bootup" programs that fixes sound and video problems? Anyone experience the same thing?
Unix has better and just as easy equivalents to Visual Basic. I don't know what's so great about VB, but I've seen some great programs using TCL (just search Freshmeat) and Java programming is great for whipping up quick applications.
As of now there are only 200 petitions generated! Come on you slackers, get your ass over there, generate the form, and mail it off! Don't you want a Linux version of the greatest strategy game of the next millenium?? We need to petition Blizzard for a port of Starcraft too. Listen fellows, the only reason I boot up into Windows is because I spend half my time at home playing Starcraft (at work I use DebianPPC). PLEASE PLEASE go fill out this petition, you will save me a alot of headache not having to boot into Win98SR2 that crashes every fricking day!
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Yeah and an even more informed Mac user would actually spend some time making the native UI for Mozilla, instead of sniveling about how it's not supported. Unfortunately, Mac users just want things done for them, and have no initiative to better an application for their own fucking operating system. In this, Mac and Windows users are the same. Both passively waiting for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to give it to them up the ass cause they're too fucking lazy, instead of finding an operating system where they are free to choose, cooperate, and contribute.
Do you think Mark Yim would do a slashdot interview? I think that would be the coolest interview ever (besides the Woz one). Please contact him, CmdrTaco/Hemos! Preeze! Pretty pretty preeze!
When a man does evil, i.e. unethical business and monopolistic practices, knows he is doing evil, straight out lies and denies he is doing any evil... well how much closer than to evil can he be?
BTW, IANAC, but "it is easier for a man to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into heaven". I really doubt you will be having that cup of coffee with Mr. Gates, in this lifetime or the next.
I'm wondering if you ever bothered reading my post. Nowhere did I say that I even used Linux as a desktop or that it was better than Windows. I said, Windows 2000 is not as stable as acclaimed, has colossal hardware requirements, is annoying as hell, and breaks backwards compatibility. SO I WENT BACK TO WINDOWS 98. I do use Linux at home, but just as a ip masquerading server, not as a desktop.
> And have you ever used Windows 2000?
YES I have used Windows 2000. Not only did it run like a pig on my K6-2 450 96MB RAM, but it crashed on the very first day. Linux, on the other hand, has never had a single crash on this machine.
The rumors that Windows 2000 is suddenly amazingly stable is pure bullshit.
Linux will never dominate the world, but I believe Open Source will. Look at all the open source projects currently being developed, Mozilla, AbiWord, GIMP, etc. These projects are all open source and can easily be recompiled on different platforms. Therefore world domination is not a dominance of One operating system, but rather freedom, through open source, to choose which operating system you prefer.
Linux is making great strides in the desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc), but I don't believe it will ever make it to Joe Dumbass's desktop. However, there are a few windows-superior candidates that ARE designed for Joe Dumbass: BeOS and MacOS X come to mind. Once open source projects reach a critical mass (I'm keeping an eye on Mozilla, Jabber, and any office suites myself), by virtue of being open source, they will be ported to any number of platforms, including these excellent desktop environments. Hell, even the Amiga might make a comeback when applications are no longer OS-specific.
Let linux remain as a server and workstation for power users. Don't try to make it do everything at once. That's what ruined Windows. Rather let the road of cooperation, currently being paved by the open source revolution, enable other OSs to fill the niche.
(Damn I just set a personal record on the # of times I said buzzword "open source" in one post).
IANAL or a law student or anything remotely resembling either. But I notice that many of the open source projects have been started by students in their spare time to help them learn more about programming. The GIMP and Linux are prime examples. Perhaps OpenLaw needs to attract more law students, while not being full lawyers, could both use and contribute to this resource in helping them learn. I'm not sure how likely this would be, but it would be nice to see a law school that requires their students participate in one OpenLaw case as a requisite for graduation.
You said: "Two words: Windows 2000"
You know I installed W2K about a week ago and I was excited, I kept reading about how everyone said it didn't need reboots. Let me tell everyone now: that is the biggest lie ever. True, you don't reboot when you add or change the IP address of your W2K workstation/server. That is because in the networking properties you can add another DUN-type icon (similar to ethx:x interfaces). However, try changing the workgroup for your W2K professional! Curiously, a message will pop up saying "Please hit OK to restart or hit cancel to do it later". And this isn't the only case, it will reboot in every case that NT4 ever had to.
In other words, DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT FALL FOR THIS LIE SPREAD BY MS AND THEIR TROLLS! Windows 2000 is not a complete rewrite of NT4 nor is it completely revamped. In fact, the first day I ran it, what do you know? IE5.5 crashed on me, though W2K was able to recover, all my running apps were now missing from the starbar and traybar. Task manager brought them up, but there was no way to bring it to the foreground so I had to end the tasks and start my apps over again. I uninstalled W2K a few days later and will stick to Win98 for my gaming needs. Despite crashing frequently, Win98 at least doesn't run horrendously slow on my 64MB ram like Win2K does.
GPL restricts closed source programs/companies from using GPL source code. Isn't this guy doing something similar? I favor GPL over the BSD license myself, but it seems to me that this is clearly an example that shows that GPL may not actually be as "free" as many people think, it's actually quite restrictive. But perhaps as RMS (and this guy now) realized, in a world full of licenses and copyrights and patents, you have to play by their rules. Fight fire with fire. Remember the United States had to win freedom by firearms, they had to give up their own cranky individualism temporarily in order to form an organization capable of defeating the british army. IMHO.
If indeed Jesus did rise from the grave. Did not certain christian mainstream-repressed gnostic texts that were discovered (dead sea scrolls) contain references that it was not Jesus who was crucified but his twin, while the real Jesus sat up in a scene laughing and watching the scene?
You said: "A little rough on the RC church aren't we? That being said, you have a point here it is often stated as the Liar, Lunatic, Lord hypothesis. Jesus was either wrong because he is lying, wrong because he is crazy, or dead on. There is not a balance, a midpoint."
There is no balance, no midpoint may lie in the likely possibility that Jesus was misinterpreted and censored to give Jesus and Christianity such an absolutist flavor. The proof lies in the discovery of the Nag Hammadi (Dead Sea scrolls) and other documents. The early roman catholic church did indeed censor and modify the (then) current christian texts in order to remove all ambiguity and give christianity the absolutist flavor we see today (Jesus is either right or wrong, believe he is wrong and go to hell!).
This article was very informative overall. I found particularly interesting the bit about Transmeta asking for a new set of benchmarks that takes into account efficiency as well as performance.
If Transmeta could afford to hire Linus Torvald's to create a Mobile Linux for their CPU, why couldn't they hire someone to create benchmarks for their CPU? That leads me to wonder, are there any good open source benchmarking programs? Perhaps if an open source one became popular, it would be easily modified to do benchmarking for new processors like this.
The Win2k test site is one being tested against HACKERS. I think those comments you copied and pasted do not represent the general Linux crowd at all, but rather the kind of script kiddies that would be attracted to something like a win2k test site. Please stop spreading FUD.
CDE is just plain too old guys. My school comp labs used to "standardize" on CDE, but I guess even they figured out CDE is not going anywhere. It's pretty much old, shitty, and slow. A step above twm but not much.
After this summer, we have KDE installed on all the Sparcstations =). Everything looks so much nicer, even though the hardware is the same, it looks like they did a major upgrade to all the computers. Plus KDE comes installed with a shitload of applications and games. Now everyone has stopped using the NT machines so they can play games on the Sparcs. KDE has truly revolutionized the Unix desktop experience.
For those who say CDE is the only viable solution for running on "thousands of desktops".. well you obviously haven't tried KDE yet, have you?
you should learn the language too bro. this guy KNOWS chinese. you obviously don't get it. stop the paranoia. your concern is appreciated though.
Has anyone had this problem, everything is rock stable w/ running X on LinuxPPC on iMac rev C. However, once I run XMMS, it will lock up the whole computer (no keyboard,mouse,telnet) in anywhere from one to ten hours. Do I need the latest kernel or their updated "bootup" programs that fixes sound and video problems? Anyone experience the same thing?
Unix has better and just as easy equivalents to Visual Basic. I don't know what's so great about VB, but I've seen some great programs using TCL (just search Freshmeat) and Java programming is great for whipping up quick applications.
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As of now there are only 200 petitions generated! Come on you slackers, get your ass over there, generate the form, and mail it off! Don't you want a Linux version of the greatest strategy game of the next millenium?? We need to petition Blizzard for a port of Starcraft too. Listen fellows, the only reason I boot up into Windows is because I spend half my time at home playing Starcraft (at work I use DebianPPC). PLEASE PLEASE go fill out this petition, you will save me a alot of headache not having to boot into Win98SR2 that crashes every fricking day!