that Slackware is simply repackaging of the gnu tools.
I'm guessing slackware probably does very little more than any other distro, they package software and release it. For the most part distro's do not include original software.
RedHat is no worse than any other distro... and what is milktoast
Maybe I'm over-simplifying, but if you notice a bug, download the source and fix it. If you use debian (my favorite distro) getting the source is as easy as typing 'apt-get -d source '
Am I the only one who finds his request impossible? The unified tool sounds nice, but I don't see anything more powerful than yast or linuxconf in the near future. The reason? It's really simple. Have you ever in your history with linux seen any configuration file that have similiar syntax?.vimrc's use " as comments! There are just too many different software packages written by too many different people to enforce any kind of a standard. And without a standard any package that claims to be a universal configuration file tool would need some sort of macro for each config file (like linuxconf).
And how would you write the GUI? What a mess, and I though linuxconf was ugly.
Maybe it's just me being pessimistic or maybe it's just that man or bitchx seem good enough to me (I've been a linux user for about 9 months)
if you need encryption to hide secrets from your government, you're already screwed. They'll simply steal the keys off your machines, or coerce the information out of you.
Are you sure? I'm guessing that the government would have a hardtime w/ my machine, but you never know... and as for coercing it out of me... I could take anything Old Bill and his cronies could dish out.
I've been using m12 for some time and I'm afraid it simply is not as usable as netscape at this time. I hope it improves (and i'm sure it will)
My biggest problem is that with netscape 4.7 on an i686 invoking netscape creates 2 processes (and more for additional windows) of 14M and about 8M of memory (according to the ever precise top:). Mozilla m12 starts with 4 processes each using about 20 meg, which quickly swell to about 40 meg each after a few minutes of browsing. I hope the extra memory is used for debugging and will be gone from thw final release, but I am horrified that Mozilla will suffer from the Netscape/AOL disease, that is: creating function after function w/o bothering to repair the current bugs or poor code. I have more faith in mozilla as assuming they wrote the code in a relatively modular fashion I should be able to remove the crap I do not need (read AIM, messenger, newsreader, etc, etc)
To be honest, I'm really excited about Gzilla.... I mean Armadillo
Netcraft's survey is much less than accurate for a number of reasons, the most important being that it is questionable that it is representative of the web as a whole and secondly (I have no proof for this), but I recall reading that apache is used in more unimportant applications (every one's personal linux machine) while IIs (because it cost $) is used more often for more important applications(important webpages, ecommerce, etc)... oh, and I am aware that apache does often has important uses as well (like slashdot!)
I think you have little to fear. As I understand it, RoadRunner is a separate company not under the control of TimeWarner, but rather under contract to use TimeWarner's existing personell and lines in exchange for $.
As always this may not be correct...as I am not affiliated with TimeWarner.
Great signature. Actually, I should change my sig. I've been using E-16.3 for a while now.
What distro are you using? If it is debian, you can install the menu package which creates consistent menus for all software installed via debs for each window-manager.
I do not expect the people at my office besides myself and the other programmers to use linux for quite some time (read maybe around 2050). Even if there was the most wonderful linux office suite and was free. They would still happily pay MS mucho $ and complain about its short comings. People don't want different things.
Our strategy to attract users (if thats the general desire) should be to continue making games. Get the kids early and they will stick with what they know (linux, free software et al) into the future.
Personally I really don't care if more users use linux. I use it. And personally vi is the only word processor (I know vi is more correctly labeled as a text editor, I'm just trying to make a point:) I hope I'll ever need.
I've found that if you disable the pager, E is much faster on my p2-450. With the pager on everything is painfully slow. With it off it is at least as fast as WMaker.
As I understand it (read: w/o hard proof of any kind) Apache has a greater number because any one can download it and have a powerful server to do simple things affecting very few. Where IIS is execeling is servers that are actually used by many (read: generate a substancial profit) choose IIS. Thus what I'm alleging is that IIS is used for more important thing than apache and the statistic should be modified to perhaps groups the indentified sites by hit or some other type. It would be nice to know what webservers most companies/individuals/elves/onions choose.
If this is really true, someone hand me a BFG and I'll show 'em all. ha ha.
The above post was humorous... video games do not cause people to kill, perhaps the reverse is true, violent people are attracted to violent video games, thus they already possessed the desire before playing the game.
Get a clue brazil or the next time i'm playing x-pilot I'll make sure to bomb the hell out of your country.
I forsee very soon after the final release of mozilla (or perhaps the alpha/beta if we're lucky) a patch from the fortify people to make it 128 bit the way they patch netscape. It seems as though it would be even easier to patch mozilla for higher encryption as they have the source code.
the size and growth rate of Debian are, IMHO, inexcusable. The main section no longer fits on one CD!
IMHO, this is the beauty of Debian. As they are all volunteers there really is no way that Debian would not be huge. Why you ask? I'll tell you. People contribute what they like. In a company like redhat those in charge can say "stop fiddling with that HURD project and give us a hand".
In the Debian world if those in charge said something similiar the HURD group would give them the finger and continue their work. They are all volunteers doing what they do because they love it. They're not being paid by anyone and really have no deadlines save those that are self-imposed. Debian's size will continue to grow very quickly so long as people have diverse interests (and we know they do... I say linux, you say freebsd, etc, etc)
My questions: When will Debian again be accepting new Developers, because you've got someone in Maine ready to give you a hand.
btw- I really think pentium optimization is a great idea, even though I read somewhere the speed increase is minimal.
Will users be able to add/update/correct translations or modify dictionaries ala the APT bot in #debian on irc.openprojects.net?
It seems to me the growth would be incredible if users could modify the dictionary (or atleast add suggestions that could later be added by someone with the appropriate power.
The creative DVD-ram does not use traditional DVD's, but rather a special format only unsable by creative dvd-rams. They're not even playable in regular DVD-players. There is a picture of these square dvd-rams here.As I understand, the pioneer device's discs can be played in standard dvd-drives.
I am very interested in Zope. I went to their site, but the download page has only this:
Due to an unforseen security problem, the 2.0.0 release has been withdrawn from availability. It will be replaced on 17 September with 2.0.1 resolving the outstanding issue. We appologise for the trouble this has created our user base, but feel that this is the prudent course of action.
It is now november. Either this is horribly out of date or zope is vaporware. Can anyone help me out with a working like to a recent version of zope?
Wolfenstein had something more. It was a trip into our past. It put us into battle with the evil so many had hated, been hurt by, or fought to destroy.
Wolfenstein was a very fun game, but to say it has a creative/good storyline is going way too far. The nazi aspect was just a clever design implimentation that made the game more noticable. Ask most people (my friends atleast) what they remember about Wolf3d and they'll talk about killing dogs, people, what have you.... protecting the world from the Nazi's was the furthest thing from their minds.
It put so many into a position of power where there had been none, and inspired many games to come.
I agree here, but I think doom was the game that truly inspired other first person shooters. Mainly because of its potential for homegrown addons and because the subject matter was more universal. Good or not it is easier for most people to hate demons, imps, and the undead, while having difficulty hating even video game people.
Anyway, there was no instant death BFG or rocket launcher. It was all so realistic.
More realistic? How far have you gotten in the game? Am I remembering incorrectly or did Hitler have some kind of vulcan-cannon clad bipedal death machine in the final (?) level? This is a little unrealistic don't you think?
if a crappy app (Netscape) can take it down then there is no difference between Linux and Windows.
How can netscape crash X? Anyone have any examples of how netscape crashes X11? For me, debian potato on an i686 netscape 4.7 crashes about twice a day (much better than 4.61), but has never caused X to die. I simply have to kill off the netscape processes, remove that stupid lock file and run netscape again whenever it crashes.
Netscape sucks, but it has never screwed up X for me. In fact no program ever has, even when unexpected events occurred (excluding UnrealTournament which sometimes freezes while glide is accessing the monitor/keyboard, although according to 'ps' X is still very much alive).
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that Slackware is simply repackaging of the gnu tools.
I'm guessing slackware probably does very little more than any other distro, they package software and release it. For the most part distro's do not include original software.
RedHat is no worse than any other distro... and what is milktoast
Maybe I'm over-simplifying, but if you notice a bug, download the source and fix it. If you use debian (my favorite distro) getting the source is as easy as typing 'apt-get -d source '
Am I the only one who finds his request impossible? The unified tool sounds nice, but I don't see anything more powerful than yast or linuxconf in the near future. The reason? It's really simple. Have you ever in your history with linux seen any configuration file that have similiar syntax? .vimrc's use " as comments! There are just too many different software packages written by too many different people to enforce any kind of a standard. And without a standard any package that claims to be a universal configuration file tool would need some sort of macro for each config file (like linuxconf).
And how would you write the GUI? What a mess, and I though linuxconf was ugly.
Maybe it's just me being pessimistic or maybe it's just that man or bitchx seem good enough to me (I've been a linux user for about 9 months)
if you need encryption to hide secrets from your government, you're already screwed. They'll simply steal the keys off your machines, or coerce the information out of you.
Are you sure? I'm guessing that the government would have a hardtime w/ my machine, but you never know... and as for coercing it out of me ... I could take anything Old Bill and his cronies could dish out.
I've been using m12 for some time and I'm afraid it simply is not as usable as netscape at this time. I hope it improves (and i'm sure it will)
My biggest problem is that with netscape 4.7 on an i686 invoking netscape creates 2 processes (and more for additional windows) of 14M and about 8M of memory (according to the ever precise top :). Mozilla m12 starts with 4 processes each using about 20 meg, which quickly swell to about 40 meg each after a few minutes of browsing. I hope the extra memory is used for debugging and will be gone from thw final release, but I am horrified that Mozilla will suffer from the Netscape/AOL disease, that is: creating function after function w/o bothering to repair the current bugs or poor code. I have more faith in mozilla as assuming they wrote the code in a relatively modular fashion I should be able to remove the crap I do not need (read AIM, messenger, newsreader, etc, etc)
To be honest, I'm really excited about Gzilla.... I mean Armadillo
Netcraft's survey is much less than accurate for a number of reasons, the most important being that it is questionable that it is representative of the web as a whole and secondly (I have no proof for this), but I recall reading that apache is used in more unimportant applications (every one's personal linux machine) while IIs (because it cost $) is used more often for more important applications(important webpages, ecommerce, etc)... oh, and I am aware that apache does often has important uses as well (like slashdot!)
I do agree that asp sucks though.
I think you have little to fear. As I understand it, RoadRunner is a separate company not under the control of TimeWarner, but rather under contract to use TimeWarner's existing personell and lines in exchange for $.
As always this may not be correct...as I am not affiliated with TimeWarner.
Great signature. Actually, I should change my sig. I've been using E-16.3 for a while now.
What distro are you using? If it is debian, you can install the menu package which creates consistent menus for all software installed via debs for each window-manager.
Debian rocks!
Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm curious to see how low this message will be rated becasue of the title.
ON TOPIC: XMMS is great. I find it to be much more stable than winamp, which in win98 atleast skips when I change pages in IE5.
xmms is a sucky program for ugly bitches.get a life, get winamp
Does using Winamp mean you have a life? I usually use mpg123, what does that make me?
as always... tied up and petrified
I do not expect the people at my office besides myself and the other programmers to use linux for quite some time (read maybe around 2050). Even if there was the most wonderful linux office suite and was free. They would still happily pay MS mucho $ and complain about its short comings. People don't want different things.
Our strategy to attract users (if thats the general desire) should be to continue making games. Get the kids early and they will stick with what they know (linux, free software et al) into the future.
Personally I really don't care if more users use linux. I use it. And personally vi is the only word processor (I know vi is more correctly labeled as a text editor, I'm just trying to make a point:) I hope I'll ever need.
Your webcam is probably USB not AGP (unless it plugs into a slot inside of your case next to your video card : )
I've found that if you disable the pager, E is much faster on my p2-450. With the pager on everything is painfully slow. With it off it is at least as fast as WMaker.
As I understand it (read: w/o hard proof of any kind) Apache has a greater number because any one can download it and have a powerful server to do simple things affecting very few. Where IIS is execeling is servers that are actually used by many (read: generate a substancial profit) choose IIS. Thus what I'm alleging is that IIS is used for more important thing than apache and the statistic should be modified to perhaps groups the indentified sites by hit or some other type. It would be nice to know what webservers most companies/individuals/elves/onions choose.
If this is really true, someone hand me a BFG and I'll show 'em all. ha ha.
The above post was humorous... video games do not cause people to kill, perhaps the reverse is true, violent people are attracted to violent video games, thus they already possessed the desire before playing the game.
Get a clue brazil or the next time i'm playing x-pilot I'll make sure to bomb the hell out of your country.
On Netscape 4.7, tab does nothing here. Are you sure it does anything for you?
I forsee very soon after the final release of mozilla (or perhaps the alpha/beta if we're lucky) a patch from the fortify people to make it 128 bit the way they patch netscape. It seems as though it would be even easier to patch mozilla for higher encryption as they have the source code.
the size and growth rate of Debian are, IMHO, inexcusable. The main section no longer fits on one CD!
IMHO, this is the beauty of Debian. As they are all volunteers there really is no way that Debian would not be huge. Why you ask? I'll tell you. People contribute what they like. In a company like redhat those in charge can say "stop fiddling with that HURD project and give us a hand".
In the Debian world if those in charge said something similiar the HURD group would give them the finger and continue their work. They are all volunteers doing what they do because they love it. They're not being paid by anyone and really have no deadlines save those that are self-imposed. Debian's size will continue to grow very quickly so long as people have diverse interests (and we know they do... I say linux, you say freebsd, etc, etc)
My questions: When will Debian again be accepting new Developers, because you've got someone in Maine ready to give you a hand.
btw- I really think pentium optimization is a great idea, even though I read somewhere the speed increase is minimal.
are we going to do?
We could boycott Q3a, but I'll bet that'll never happen. I personally have a few reservations now about purchasing the finished game.
Anyone know if this will be a 'feature' of the completed q3a or just part of the tests/demos?
Will users be able to add/update/correct translations or modify dictionaries ala the APT bot in #debian on irc.openprojects.net?
It seems to me the growth would be incredible if users could modify the dictionary (or atleast add suggestions that could later be added by someone with the appropriate power.
This was funny. It deserves a little more than a rating of 'flamebait'
The creative DVD-ram does not use traditional DVD's, but rather a special format only unsable by creative dvd-rams. They're not even playable in regular DVD-players. There is a picture of these square dvd-rams here.As I understand, the pioneer device's discs can be played in standard dvd-drives.
I am very interested in Zope. I went to their site, but the download page has only this:
Due to an unforseen security problem, the 2.0.0 release has been withdrawn from availability. It will be replaced on 17 September with 2.0.1 resolving the outstanding issue. We appologise for the trouble this has created our user base, but feel that this is the prudent course of action.
It is now november. Either this is horribly out of date or zope is vaporware. Can anyone help me out with a working like to a recent version of zope?
AC's are the best!
Wolfenstein had something more. It was a trip into our past. It put us into battle with the evil so many had hated, been hurt by, or fought to destroy.
Wolfenstein was a very fun game, but to say it has a creative/good storyline is going way too far. The nazi aspect was just a clever design implimentation that made the game more noticable. Ask most people (my friends atleast) what they remember about Wolf3d and they'll talk about killing dogs, people, what have you.... protecting the world from the Nazi's was the furthest thing from their minds.
It put so many into a position of power where there had been none, and inspired many games to come.
I agree here, but I think doom was the game that truly inspired other first person shooters. Mainly because of its potential for homegrown addons and because the subject matter was more universal. Good or not it is easier for most people to hate demons, imps, and the undead, while having difficulty hating even video game people.
Anyway, there was no instant death BFG or rocket launcher. It was all so realistic.
More realistic? How far have you gotten in the game? Am I remembering incorrectly or did Hitler have some kind of vulcan-cannon clad bipedal death machine in the final (?) level? This is a little unrealistic don't you think?
if a crappy app (Netscape) can take it down then there is no difference between Linux and Windows.
How can netscape crash X? Anyone have any examples of how netscape crashes X11? For me, debian potato on an i686 netscape 4.7 crashes about twice a day (much better than 4.61), but has never caused X to die. I simply have to kill off the netscape processes, remove that stupid lock file and run netscape again whenever it crashes.
Netscape sucks, but it has never screwed up X for me. In fact no program ever has, even when unexpected events occurred (excluding UnrealTournament which sometimes freezes while glide is accessing the monitor/keyboard, although according to 'ps' X is still very much alive).