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"it's something to do with computers"
Or, more correctly, "it's something to do with computers that will either a) make you scream until your office explodes, b) make you eat your cellphone, or c) make your head pop off"
I'm not sure entirely what it was about firefox that was this amazing. It's still the same internet as you'd see in any other browser.
I find it hard to compare spam with catalogs... the spam I get nowadays isn't even advertising anything anymoer, it's mostly in japanese (which I am completely incapable of reading), or just plain "filter-defeating" gibberish without any actual advertisement in it.
Imagine going to Sears, picking up the catalogue, and finding that a) there are no pictures of anything at all, and b) the only pages that are not japanese are random garbage.
Don't worry, if they outlaw spanking the monkey, we'll still be able to choke the chicken, flog the dolphin, milk the lizard, slap the clown, tease the weasel, or any number of other wholesome activities!
The sad thing is that $50 billion is enough money for 50,000 middle class people to live off the interest -- and that's just if the money's in a low-interest savings account, nevermind investments with higher interest rates.
This would be true if every piece of software that worked on RH5 also worked on RH6 and 7. I definitely found that this was not the case.
Of all the distros that exists and all the versions that have been released, I picked the right distro but was only out by one on the version number. I'd say that's pretty close.
3) When picking options in menuconfig I left out LPT support by mistake.
Oh that's great. So what you're saying is that it's your fault that you had to recompile your kernel to get the printer working. So you're complaining that linux is bad because you have to recompile every time you want to add a printer, except not only is that not true now, it wasn't even true on the distro you were using at the time. You only had to do it because you chose to compile your kernel without printer support in the first place.
My complaint was that this is not how it should have been. How long does it take to add a printer driver in windows? 30 seconds maybe? Most of the time you don't need to even reboot.
Well, on linux, you don't even need to install drivers, and you certainly don't need to reboot. You just plug in the printer, and then select what model of printer it is from a list (if that). If you had been using a stock kernel, you would have had no problem at all with your printer. The "problem" is that linux is open source, and it allows you to recompile the kernel to your own specifications if you choose (try that with windows), and you accidentally compiled your kernel without support for a critical piece of equipment attached to your system. This is not Linux's fault, this is your fault. I assure you, if windows was open source and you could recompile it's kernel, it would be just as easy to accidentally remove printer support, but you wouldn't blame windows for that.
The point is, you need to be thankful that you even can recompile your kernel if you need to, Linux gives you that freedom. It's not something that anybody should ever need to do, it's an "advanced" feature provided for advanced users with exacting specifications that aren't satisfied by a stock kernel. Don't fault Linux for your mistakes.
Take stock of how you treat others using a system if you're advocating they use it.
I never advocated you use it. You came to me (indirectly, by posting on slashdot), and we started talking. I'm not the guy who told you to install RH6 in the first place. Go use windows for all I care.
Yes, linux is not perfect and it has a lot of problems, but if you're going to complain about them, at least complain about something that's a real problem.
I dunno, my dad had a bread maker, we could never get it quite right. The bread was always too thick, and really crusty.
Out of all the expenses in my day to day life, spending 99 cents on a loaf of bread isn't a huge concern. It's when I go to Subway and spend $9 for a foot-long sub, bottle of coke, and a couple cookies that's really hurting my budget (considering that's what I do for lunch every day that I go to work... on my days off and for meals before/after work, I just eat whatever cheapo food is available around the house).
It sure is a good thing that I can't post this comment without waiting for another minute. Doesn't this extra text make the comment so much better? Hilarity ensues as stupid people continue to read this filler text. Filler Filler Filler.
I absolutely disagree. ISPs should be given "common carrier" status and should not at all be held responsible for anything that goes over their pipes. If you hold them responsible for hackers on their network, then they've got to start policing p2p, and then they give out the names of infringing customers, and then it's all over.
Now, of course, a competent sysadmin would recognize a zombie PC on his network and would take steps to correct that, but under no circumstances should ISPs be held legally liable for that kind of stuff.
I was actually running Redhat 6 and 7 at the time.
Then I would call RH5 a pretty darn good guess.
My point was that I have been using linux as my primary OS (server and desktop) for many years now, and even I would roll my eyes if I saw somebody recompiling a kernel just to get their printer working. Come on! It's not 1993 anymore.
So tell me, why should I be upgrading my OS to something so completely different that it breaks my apps every year?
Hey, it's not my fault that your apps are crappy. What I'm saying is that you can't fault linux for something that hasn't been true about it for 10 years.
Well, I'm a firm believer in "graceful degradation"... the website is perfectly viewable and accessible in everything from lynx to a screen reader. Anything that Firefox or IE might do to the page is just eye candy on top of that.
For example, I recently started using the -moz-border-radius setting to give the "code blocks" in my articles a rounder corner. I chose to do this because those code blocks are the only thing on my website that use straight lines (the header graphic is a curve and there aren't really any lines anywhere else in the page's design). Of course, IE users will still see those boxes as having square edges. So what? It's not like the page now renders in 2pt non-scalable font for them or something. It's still perfectly readable and accessible, just slightly less pretty.
So yeah, just like that article mentions, I don't cater to broken browsers... I mostly code to standards, and then I just make sure that the degradation in the broken browsers is in fact graceful.
I think it would be better to say that Open Source is it's own competition... if some software project is stagnating, it gets forked, and the fork innovates until either the original project dies (see XFree86/X.org split), or until the fork gets merged back into the main project (see gcc/egcs split).
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Psht. wget is for posers. I telnet directly to port 80 and issue HTTP commands by hand.
"it's something to do with computers"
Or, more correctly, "it's something to do with computers that will either a) make you scream until your office explodes, b) make you eat your cellphone, or c) make your head pop off"
I'm not sure entirely what it was about firefox that was this amazing. It's still the same internet as you'd see in any other browser.
I find it hard to compare spam with catalogs... the spam I get nowadays isn't even advertising anything anymoer, it's mostly in japanese (which I am completely incapable of reading), or just plain "filter-defeating" gibberish without any actual advertisement in it.
Imagine going to Sears, picking up the catalogue, and finding that a) there are no pictures of anything at all, and b) the only pages that are not japanese are random garbage.
Wow, are you sure that there are ~6,000,000 people who are familiar with cryptography?
Don't worry, if they outlaw spanking the monkey, we'll still be able to choke the chicken, flog the dolphin, milk the lizard, slap the clown, tease the weasel, or any number of other wholesome activities!
Intentional pun or typo?
Hey! I can see my pixel from here!
The sad thing is that $50 billion is enough money for 50,000 middle class people to live off the interest -- and that's just if the money's in a low-interest savings account, nevermind investments with higher interest rates.
235,523th
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Ah, the two hundred and thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty thirth, eh?
I only mention it because I actually wrote something similar recently and I thought the word "twenty thirth" was pretty funny
Then our goal is clear: to kill all the lawyers.
The best was when, in Independance Day, the aliens send spaceships to destroy every major city on the planet, none of them come to Canada.
;)
Just goes to show, in a post-apocalyptic world, Canada will be the only unaffected country
It sounds like a step in the right direction.
Maybe one day Windows will join the big boys and will only require reboots for when the whole kernel is to be replaced.
This would be true if every piece of software that worked on RH5 also worked on RH6 and 7. I definitely found that this was not the case.
Of all the distros that exists and all the versions that have been released, I picked the right distro but was only out by one on the version number. I'd say that's pretty close.
3) When picking options in menuconfig I left out LPT support by mistake.
Oh that's great. So what you're saying is that it's your fault that you had to recompile your kernel to get the printer working. So you're complaining that linux is bad because you have to recompile every time you want to add a printer, except not only is that not true now, it wasn't even true on the distro you were using at the time. You only had to do it because you chose to compile your kernel without printer support in the first place.
My complaint was that this is not how it should have been. How long does it take to add a printer driver in windows? 30 seconds maybe? Most of the time you don't need to even reboot.
Well, on linux, you don't even need to install drivers, and you certainly don't need to reboot. You just plug in the printer, and then select what model of printer it is from a list (if that). If you had been using a stock kernel, you would have had no problem at all with your printer. The "problem" is that linux is open source, and it allows you to recompile the kernel to your own specifications if you choose (try that with windows), and you accidentally compiled your kernel without support for a critical piece of equipment attached to your system. This is not Linux's fault, this is your fault. I assure you, if windows was open source and you could recompile it's kernel, it would be just as easy to accidentally remove printer support, but you wouldn't blame windows for that.
The point is, you need to be thankful that you even can recompile your kernel if you need to, Linux gives you that freedom. It's not something that anybody should ever need to do, it's an "advanced" feature provided for advanced users with exacting specifications that aren't satisfied by a stock kernel. Don't fault Linux for your mistakes.
Take stock of how you treat others using a system if you're advocating they use it.
I never advocated you use it. You came to me (indirectly, by posting on slashdot), and we started talking. I'm not the guy who told you to install RH6 in the first place. Go use windows for all I care.
Yes, linux is not perfect and it has a lot of problems, but if you're going to complain about them, at least complain about something that's a real problem.
I dunno, my dad had a bread maker, we could never get it quite right. The bread was always too thick, and really crusty.
Out of all the expenses in my day to day life, spending 99 cents on a loaf of bread isn't a huge concern. It's when I go to Subway and spend $9 for a foot-long sub, bottle of coke, and a couple cookies that's really hurting my budget (considering that's what I do for lunch every day that I go to work... on my days off and for meals before/after work, I just eat whatever cheapo food is available around the house).
But yes, after gdm loads, Ubuntu and Fedora are both very slick and comparable gnome distros. But Ubuntu is better because it's debian
binary... so... god only had 1 finger?
It sure is a good thing that I can't post this comment without waiting for another minute. Doesn't this extra text make the comment so much better? Hilarity ensues as stupid people continue to read this filler text. Filler Filler Filler.
Charge $15/comment, suddenly the trolls realise they can't be bothered, only people with serious points to make will bother posting.
Thank you, I always have a hard time finding the actual file amidst the mess of obfuscated codes, redirects, palylist files, etc.
I absolutely disagree. ISPs should be given "common carrier" status and should not at all be held responsible for anything that goes over their pipes. If you hold them responsible for hackers on their network, then they've got to start policing p2p, and then they give out the names of infringing customers, and then it's all over.
Now, of course, a competent sysadmin would recognize a zombie PC on his network and would take steps to correct that, but under no circumstances should ISPs be held legally liable for that kind of stuff.
Yeah, the old KD / PBJ dinners here. I wouldn't mind being $40k broke, no sir, not at all.
I was actually running Redhat 6 and 7 at the time.
Then I would call RH5 a pretty darn good guess.
My point was that I have been using linux as my primary OS (server and desktop) for many years now, and even I would roll my eyes if I saw somebody recompiling a kernel just to get their printer working. Come on! It's not 1993 anymore.
So tell me, why should I be upgrading my OS to something so completely different that it breaks my apps every year?
Hey, it's not my fault that your apps are crappy. What I'm saying is that you can't fault linux for something that hasn't been true about it for 10 years.
Well, I'm a firm believer in "graceful degradation"... the website is perfectly viewable and accessible in everything from lynx to a screen reader. Anything that Firefox or IE might do to the page is just eye candy on top of that.
For example, I recently started using the -moz-border-radius setting to give the "code blocks" in my articles a rounder corner. I chose to do this because those code blocks are the only thing on my website that use straight lines (the header graphic is a curve and there aren't really any lines anywhere else in the page's design). Of course, IE users will still see those boxes as having square edges. So what? It's not like the page now renders in 2pt non-scalable font for them or something. It's still perfectly readable and accessible, just slightly less pretty.
So yeah, just like that article mentions, I don't cater to broken browsers... I mostly code to standards, and then I just make sure that the degradation in the broken browsers is in fact graceful.
You'd have to put them into rotation though, so each wife gets a 6 month break between children. Just like crop rotation...
I think it would be better to say that Open Source is it's own competition... if some software project is stagnating, it gets forked, and the fork innovates until either the original project dies (see XFree86/X.org split), or until the fork gets merged back into the main project (see gcc/egcs split).
Yeah, but in Internet time, the difference between 1990 and 1993 is more like 25 years.