I prefer AisleRiot... it's a ton of card games all in one app (including spider solitaire and normal solitaire).
Ok, it's not really a card game... it's actually a Scheme interpreter that predefines some functions for handling card-game logic. So, if you feel like it, you can write your own card game and play it with AisleRiot, relatively easily.
XFCE4 is *great*. I've got an AMD k6-2 (360 MHz, 64 Mbs of RAM), and XFCE 4 runs really fast (well, until you launch mozilla, then it swaps like a mofo).
But still, I was very impressed with how great XFCE4 looks (especially relative to XFCE3), and how fast it runs on older hardware.
My system has a printer, cd burner, ethernet card, video card (ATI radeon 9000), and a sound card (creative sb live), among other things.
When I used to use windows, all these things would require a separate driver disk, or going to the manufacturer's website to get the drivers. When I installed linux, it all just worked without any driver disks.
Funny, because it seems like whenever I install hardware on a windows box, I need some obscure driver disk, but whenever I install hardware on a linux box, it Just Works[tm].
Microsoft, with all it's billions, hasn't been able to match the quality of Linux. It's sad, really.
Just connect to the already-provided torrent and save it overtop of your current one, you'll start seeding it right away and you won't have to download it again.
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Because my university doesn't have anything newer than redhat 7.3. And the other universities are too far away to be fast anyway.
I got RH9 off bittorrent and my download was 600kB/s, while my upload was 900 kB/s. That's why I want an official bittorrent link, instead of just the university links.
There's a root shell right in the KDE menu, and from there you can run 'passwd' to change the password. Bam, now you have total root access to the entire knoppix box.
Or just use the official bittorrent link and speed up everybody else's download.
Splitting off your own bittorrent link won't help anybody, it'll only fracture the group of downloaders, harming all of them.
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Hooray! This is exactly what Bram Cohen wanted. Up until now, the usual way to get linux ISOs on bittorrent was for somebody to get it off the FTP and then post a torrent link.
It looks like linux distros are 'getting it' and posting torrent links to help curb their bandwidth bills.
Now let's hope the next version of RedHat is available from an official RH bittorrent link...:)
My biggest gripe with 3.2 was very petty; it was simply a matter of polish. Version 3.2 was the first to incorporate X 4.3, and the knoppix guys had done no work with the mouse cursors, so what happens was that X was trying to use the whiteglass cursors, the fancy png-based ones with 16-bit alpha. Though, when you moused over certain widgets, the mouse would revert to the screwy 2-bit mouse cursors that the knoppix guys made for 3.1 (1 bit for alpha, 1 bit for color).
It was kind of annoying, but other than that knoppix itself was great (in fact, it came in handy when my HD fried and it took me a week to replace it, knoppix was the only distro I could use... otherwise, my PC would have been a paperweight).
Of course I can't get to the changelog, it's slashdotted. I'll have to wait for the download to finish so I can boot it.
Just thought I'd point out, putting apt-get upgrade into your cron jobs is something that's been possible on debian (and other systems that apt-get has been ported to, like redhat) ever since apt-get was created. I don't know exactly when apt-get came into existence, but I can tell you for certain that it was a hell of a lot earlier than Microsoft introduced it's automatic patch install system.
I often wonder when microsoft will stop playing catch-up and start doing real innovation.
Boy, I sure am glad that my SendmailUpdate notified me automatically that there was a problem and automatically downloaded the patch for me. Windows never does that, right folks?
Well, on my RedHat box, the little blue checkmark turns into a red exclamation mark when there's an update. Then I click on it, it tells me what needs to be updated, then it downloads and installs everything.
Granted, the notification tool doesn't provide a method of automatically installing the updates, you have to click through the dialogue every time there's an update.
If you have a really big hard-on to get automatic updates, just install apt-rpm and then put 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --yes' into a daily cron job.
Google's methodology, ranking by weighted hyperlink popularity, wouldn't apply to books.
Actually, it could. But instead of hyperlinks, it would use references/bibliographies. So if my book takes a quote from your book, that would have the same effect as a hyperlink on a website.
Then, the most-quoted books would get the highest search results. If everybody is talking about your book, it could just be the one you're looking for:)
I think it would be more productive to illustrate the trend in use / adoption of GNU/Linux as a platform. Do any of you have decent data sources for this type of trend?
Any such sources are inherently biased against linux.
The standard way for measuring the market share of a given operating system is to look at the vendor's sales. This has tons of problems.
First, linux ISOs can be freely downloaded without any sale taking place, so lots of people can (and do) install linux without showing up on any company's sales figures.
Second, even if you buy a boxed set of RedHat 9, you can install that on as many computers as you want. So if RedHat says they sold x copies of their OS, that could easily represent 2x or 3x installations of the OS.
Third, all new PCs come with Windows preloaded, and count towards Microsoft's market share. Even if the first thing you do with your new PC is install linux on it, it's still a Windows box, as far as Microsoft's sales figures will show.
So, sales figures are totally unreliable in gauging anybody's market share. You could turn to Netcraft, which is amazingly accurate... except that it only cares about servers. Desktops don't even show up at all.
If you want numbers, you're totally SOL. Even if you found the numbers, they don't mean anything. Ok, I'll tell you the numbers right now: Linux has 50% of the market. I pulled that number out of my ass, but it's about as reliable as you'll find anywhere else.
Scientists should be interested in linux because linux is developed in much the same way that scientific theories are developed.
That is, nobody will ever respect a theory untill it has undergone peer review. Other scientists scrutinize the theory, and try to disprove it. If they fail to disprove it, then it becomes accepted as the best theory.
In Linux, it's much the same. Somebody writes a program, and in doing so, claims that their program is the best way to solve that given problem. Other programmers will scrutinize the code, and try to find better ways of solving the problem. They can develop entirely new ways that replace the old ways, or they can incrementally improve the current ways. Either way, the end result is a higher quality of code, in a general sense.
I mean, Linux Just Makes Sense (TM) for the scientific community. They both heavily rely on peer review to ensure that things are reliable and trustworthy.
Would anybody trust a scientific theory that was developed by secretive scientists who won't publish what experiments they did to come up with their ideas? If we can't verify that what they did was the right way to do things, how can we trust their results? Of course you don't, which is the same reason that proprietary software is so crappy. You can't see their methods, only their results, and the results are often sub-par.
Well, is that 8 Gigabytes, or 8 Gibibytes? And which one is better?
Well, Giga (and mega, kilo, etc) go by powers of ten (10^3), and Gibi (and mebi, kibi, etc) go by powers of two (2^10).
Since 10^3 is 1,000 and 2^10 is 1,024, one gibibyte is larger than one gigabyte. Specifically, 1 gibibyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes, while 1 gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Unless, of course, you're a sane person. Then 1 gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes, and 1 gibibyte doesn't exist.
I think it's clever, because (possibly) nobody ever thought of doing it before. Make is a tool that makes it easy to compile programs, not for booting your system.
I've heard that a program isn't truly successful until it's been used in a way unimagined by the original author. I guess make is now truly successful:)
This is a really naive way of looking at things. As long as MS is the dominant player in the OS market, the industry will continue to suffer from monopoly lock-in practises, such as MS using it's ill-gotten gains to buy Epic, and squash any games they might have made for Linux/Mac in the future.
There is a demand for games on non-windows platforms, and Microsoft is literally paying a big company not to meet the market's demands. If there's a better example of Microsoft using it's money to hinder the competition instead of actually competing on technical merits, I don't know what it is.
The sooner Microsoft goes out of business, the sooner the industry can get back on track with actually getting things done and developing good systems, instead of being forced to play catch-up to ever-changing proprietary protocols and formats. Microsoft's mere existence has set the industry back at least 20 years. Who knows what the world would be like without them; it would surely be better, though.
BSD can take over the world, Linux can take over the world, Apple can take over the world, I don't care, just as long as one of them does it and we finally get rid of Bill Gates.
Well yeah, that's the point I was trying to argue (sorry if it wasn't obvious:).
Locking people out of your network makes it less valuable to the people who do use it. If any of MSN, ICQ, or AIM decides to lock me out of chatting with their users with gaim, I'll tell my friends to get jabber or just deal with not being able to IM me.
If I convince my friends to get jabber instead of AIM/AOL, then AOL has lost paying customers by locking me out, even though I'm not paying them anything.
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solitaire and spider solitaire is great!
I prefer AisleRiot... it's a ton of card games all in one app (including spider solitaire and normal solitaire).
Ok, it's not really a card game... it's actually a Scheme interpreter that predefines some functions for handling card-game logic. So, if you feel like it, you can write your own card game and play it with AisleRiot, relatively easily.
Oops, I guess I'm not eligible for the job...
XFCE4 is *great*. I've got an AMD k6-2 (360 MHz, 64 Mbs of RAM), and XFCE 4 runs really fast (well, until you launch mozilla, then it swaps like a mofo).
But still, I was very impressed with how great XFCE4 looks (especially relative to XFCE3), and how fast it runs on older hardware.
Let me break it down for you:
My system has a printer, cd burner, ethernet card, video card (ATI radeon 9000), and a sound card (creative sb live), among other things.
When I used to use windows, all these things would require a separate driver disk, or going to the manufacturer's website to get the drivers. When I installed linux, it all just worked without any driver disks.
Go figure.
you are still a liar.
Tell that to my printer, that started printing without any configuration, all I had to do was plug it in (and reboot).
Ever heard of kudzu?
Bollocks.
Wow, that's the best argument I've ever heard! I guess I'll just have to stop using Linux, since you're obviously right.
Sorry to waste your time.
Dumbass.
Funny, because it seems like whenever I install hardware on a windows box, I need some obscure driver disk, but whenever I install hardware on a linux box, it Just Works[tm].
Microsoft, with all it's billions, hasn't been able to match the quality of Linux. It's sad, really.
That about sums it up :)
10-25 users? Gimme a break!
Why redownload it?
Why would you?
Just connect to the already-provided torrent and save it overtop of your current one, you'll start seeding it right away and you won't have to download it again.
Because my university doesn't have anything newer than redhat 7.3. And the other universities are too far away to be fast anyway.
I got RH9 off bittorrent and my download was 600kB/s, while my upload was 900 kB/s. That's why I want an official bittorrent link, instead of just the university links.
It denies you root access
ROFL.
There's a root shell right in the KDE menu, and from there you can run 'passwd' to change the password. Bam, now you have total root access to the entire knoppix box.
Congratulations, you just rooted your own box.
Or just use the official bittorrent link and speed up everybody else's download.
Splitting off your own bittorrent link won't help anybody, it'll only fracture the group of downloaders, harming all of them.
Hooray! This is exactly what Bram Cohen wanted. Up until now, the usual way to get linux ISOs on bittorrent was for somebody to get it off the FTP and then post a torrent link.
:)
It looks like linux distros are 'getting it' and posting torrent links to help curb their bandwidth bills.
Now let's hope the next version of RedHat is available from an official RH bittorrent link...
My biggest gripe with 3.2 was very petty; it was simply a matter of polish. Version 3.2 was the first to incorporate X 4.3, and the knoppix guys had done no work with the mouse cursors, so what happens was that X was trying to use the whiteglass cursors, the fancy png-based ones with 16-bit alpha. Though, when you moused over certain widgets, the mouse would revert to the screwy 2-bit mouse cursors that the knoppix guys made for 3.1 (1 bit for alpha, 1 bit for color).
It was kind of annoying, but other than that knoppix itself was great (in fact, it came in handy when my HD fried and it took me a week to replace it, knoppix was the only distro I could use... otherwise, my PC would have been a paperweight).
Of course I can't get to the changelog, it's slashdotted. I'll have to wait for the download to finish so I can boot it.
Just thought I'd point out, putting apt-get upgrade into your cron jobs is something that's been possible on debian (and other systems that apt-get has been ported to, like redhat) ever since apt-get was created. I don't know exactly when apt-get came into existence, but I can tell you for certain that it was a hell of a lot earlier than Microsoft introduced it's automatic patch install system.
I often wonder when microsoft will stop playing catch-up and start doing real innovation.
Boy, I sure am glad that my SendmailUpdate notified me automatically that there was a problem and automatically downloaded the patch for me. Windows never does that, right folks?
Well, on my RedHat box, the little blue checkmark turns into a red exclamation mark when there's an update. Then I click on it, it tells me what needs to be updated, then it downloads and installs everything.
Granted, the notification tool doesn't provide a method of automatically installing the updates, you have to click through the dialogue every time there's an update.
If you have a really big hard-on to get automatic updates, just install apt-rpm and then put 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --yes' into a daily cron job.
The funny part is, the bayesian filters will recognise the "random" letters as being gibberish and will filter against it.
Google's methodology, ranking by weighted hyperlink popularity, wouldn't apply to books.
:)
Actually, it could. But instead of hyperlinks, it would use references/bibliographies. So if my book takes a quote from your book, that would have the same effect as a hyperlink on a website.
Then, the most-quoted books would get the highest search results. If everybody is talking about your book, it could just be the one you're looking for
I think it would be more productive to illustrate the trend in use / adoption of GNU/Linux as a platform. Do any of you have decent data sources for this type of trend?
Any such sources are inherently biased against linux.
The standard way for measuring the market share of a given operating system is to look at the vendor's sales. This has tons of problems.
First, linux ISOs can be freely downloaded without any sale taking place, so lots of people can (and do) install linux without showing up on any company's sales figures.
Second, even if you buy a boxed set of RedHat 9, you can install that on as many computers as you want. So if RedHat says they sold x copies of their OS, that could easily represent 2x or 3x installations of the OS.
Third, all new PCs come with Windows preloaded, and count towards Microsoft's market share. Even if the first thing you do with your new PC is install linux on it, it's still a Windows box, as far as Microsoft's sales figures will show.
So, sales figures are totally unreliable in gauging anybody's market share. You could turn to Netcraft, which is amazingly accurate... except that it only cares about servers. Desktops don't even show up at all.
If you want numbers, you're totally SOL. Even if you found the numbers, they don't mean anything. Ok, I'll tell you the numbers right now: Linux has 50% of the market. I pulled that number out of my ass, but it's about as reliable as you'll find anywhere else.
Scientists should be interested in linux because linux is developed in much the same way that scientific theories are developed.
That is, nobody will ever respect a theory untill it has undergone peer review. Other scientists scrutinize the theory, and try to disprove it. If they fail to disprove it, then it becomes accepted as the best theory.
In Linux, it's much the same. Somebody writes a program, and in doing so, claims that their program is the best way to solve that given problem. Other programmers will scrutinize the code, and try to find better ways of solving the problem. They can develop entirely new ways that replace the old ways, or they can incrementally improve the current ways. Either way, the end result is a higher quality of code, in a general sense.
I mean, Linux Just Makes Sense (TM) for the scientific community. They both heavily rely on peer review to ensure that things are reliable and trustworthy.
Would anybody trust a scientific theory that was developed by secretive scientists who won't publish what experiments they did to come up with their ideas? If we can't verify that what they did was the right way to do things, how can we trust their results? Of course you don't, which is the same reason that proprietary software is so crappy. You can't see their methods, only their results, and the results are often sub-par.
Well, is that 8 Gigabytes, or 8 Gibibytes? And which one is better?
Well, Giga (and mega, kilo, etc) go by powers of ten (10^3), and Gibi (and mebi, kibi, etc) go by powers of two (2^10).
Since 10^3 is 1,000 and 2^10 is 1,024, one gibibyte is larger than one gigabyte. Specifically, 1 gibibyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes, while 1 gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Unless, of course, you're a sane person. Then 1 gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes, and 1 gibibyte doesn't exist.
True, but it's like street justice. Let the animals wipe themselves out.
I think it's clever, because (possibly) nobody ever thought of doing it before. Make is a tool that makes it easy to compile programs, not for booting your system.
:)
I've heard that a program isn't truly successful until it's been used in a way unimagined by the original author. I guess make is now truly successful
But to be honest, who gives a shit.
This is a really naive way of looking at things. As long as MS is the dominant player in the OS market, the industry will continue to suffer from monopoly lock-in practises, such as MS using it's ill-gotten gains to buy Epic, and squash any games they might have made for Linux/Mac in the future.
There is a demand for games on non-windows platforms, and Microsoft is literally paying a big company not to meet the market's demands. If there's a better example of Microsoft using it's money to hinder the competition instead of actually competing on technical merits, I don't know what it is.
The sooner Microsoft goes out of business, the sooner the industry can get back on track with actually getting things done and developing good systems, instead of being forced to play catch-up to ever-changing proprietary protocols and formats. Microsoft's mere existence has set the industry back at least 20 years. Who knows what the world would be like without them; it would surely be better, though.
BSD can take over the world, Linux can take over the world, Apple can take over the world, I don't care, just as long as one of them does it and we finally get rid of Bill Gates.
Well yeah, that's the point I was trying to argue (sorry if it wasn't obvious :).
Locking people out of your network makes it less valuable to the people who do use it. If any of MSN, ICQ, or AIM decides to lock me out of chatting with their users with gaim, I'll tell my friends to get jabber or just deal with not being able to IM me.
If I convince my friends to get jabber instead of AIM/AOL, then AOL has lost paying customers by locking me out, even though I'm not paying them anything.
Although it's a nice technicality, the fact of the matter is that you're facilitating somebody else's download of the file.
I don't really think it matters that they got part from you, part from somebody else, etc etc etc, just that they got it and you gave it to them.
(I got a note from my ISP about how I was sharing a movie on BT, although nothing has come of it as yet).