You don't just pump money into something and say "make it good". If Sun isn't happy with *nix on the desktop, then they should start hashing out some specifics on what needs to be changed / added.
Personally I'm quite happy with *nix on the desktop minus a few largely inconsequential nitpicks here and there.
Boy I'd love to get my hands on the source of the Cisco Link Statnus meter so I could hack it and have a working LSM for my 350 series Cisco radiocard in Linux.
Not really. To me it seems like religion is bullshit. It's no different than being asked to believe in the Easter Bunny or Santa. As such, people who believe this stuff tend to have other ridiculous beliefs as well. But this is a politics article, not a religion article. You may feel free to dismiss my generalizations out of hand. I won't care.
With regards to your political argument, this may surprise you, but I agree entirely. Though if you took the time to read my post more thoroughly you might have found that, instead of being offended that I think religion is bullshit.
Bush won fair and square. BOTH times. He was merely working within the system. All we can do is change the system so that what happened in 2000 doesn't happen again.
Congratulations on your victory. May the next four years drive our economy further down the spiral, may our country further continue to piss off its allies, and may the President continue to lie to his people for the purpose of pushing his own agenda.
I for one don't ignore the painfully obvious with regards to politics or religion. Seems over half of America does.
I am anecdotally comparing your stern conservatism with that which was similarly argued by the southern conservatives attempting to preserve slavery in the 1800s. The liberals eventually one that fight. History, even conservative history, looks back on those days realizing that the liberals of the time were right.
I've no doubt that in 200 more years history will not look back kindly on Bush's actions as president.
Gore won the popular vote and that's all that should matter. Structuring the votes via electoral college to suppress the voice of populated states and amplify the voice of the less popular states represents an obviously inaccurate view of majority. This is in no way fair.
I don't care what the forefathers had in mind. This system sucks and it needs to be changed. We've had plenty of amendments to the constitution since its birth. Plenty of room for one more. Bush should never have been appointed president in 2000.
But it's done. That said, Bush won the popular vote this time around. Kerry has no right to challenge the results of the election. As much as I hate Bush, he won this time fair and square. There's nothing the law can do against uninformed conservative religious hick voters supporting Bush and blindly as their religion.
Try this little experiment - breathe out all the way. Now don't breathe back in. See how long you go without breathing in. That's what it's like when you try to quit, except you know that if you give in and take a "breath," you've lost.
I don't deny the addiction. It is the very reason I encourage quitting. I know people who have quit and I know apologists like you. Quitting smoking is not deprivation of air. It will not kill you.
You do realize, of course, that without the "sin taxes" placed on tobacco, federal and state governments will have to raise taxes across the board to recoup that loss, right?
Uh huh. Because this of course justifies ALL the problems with smoking. Right. I don't think smoking should be illegal, but I do think that nicotine cigarettes should be illegal. Addictive drugs should not be sold over the counter in an unregulated fashion. FWI I support the legalization (and heavy taxation) of marijuana despite my strong opposition of its use as well. What's the difference? Nicotine is addictive. Marijuana is not. And no matter what you smoke, I think it should be kept in your own home. Besides, if you're not addicted to it (such as a non-nicotine cigarette, or marijuana) why should you care if it's restricted to your home?
After we kill the immoral tobacco industry, who are we going after next? The immoral alcohol industry?
Alcohol is a severe problem in this country. Again, I'm not opposed to getting drunk, but I am opposed to alcoholism. Until we can find a way to get drunk without ending up with hundreds of thousands of addicts, there's a problem and it needs a solution.
The immoral oil companies?
Sure, they're not fun either. Did you know methanol can be refined from marijuana many times more efficiently than from corn husks? Did you know that it's a renewable combustible fuel? Gasoline has been obsolete for a long time. Nascar uses methanol you know. The only reason most vehicles use gasoline is due to lobbying and suppression of renewable alternatives. But I digress.
The immoral porn industry?
What's immoral about that? We're all adults here...
The immoral gun industry?
It's not the tool. It's how it's used. People shouldn't be allowed to possess weapons that are severe overkill, such as automatic weapons or nuclear weapons. But the right to possess arms for a reasonable purpose (such as hunting and self defense) is a basic [American || God Given || $DIETY || human] right.
With 80% less additives, I think I'll stick to these unless the new battery-powered cigarettes actually end up cheaper.
Or you could stop smoking. As a result of this seemingly obvious course of action, you pay even less (nothing actually), live longer, stop annoying people around you, stop fueling an immoral industry, and stop contributing in your own small way to why our species is still largely primitive as a whole.
All the Debian installs I've done have been as simple as:
1. boot livecd 2. partition and install base system 3. install grub 4. reboot 5. boot debian 6. get terminal 7. ??? 8. profit!!!
Done. Want X? Install it. Don't want X? Don't install it.
IMHO Debian is the best OS for Linux servers. As a desktop its a bit more sketchy though. I use it, but you have to run unstable and even experimental packages to get any kind of desktop system that's up to date. But it works. So it's my distro. I use none other.
Slackware users are no-nonsense, doctrinarial, and do most things "by the book." They take pride in theirs being the oldest Linux Distro, and shun all others as being "childish."
Um, right. In order to be by the book and not childish you have to use a cryptic source distro?
Source distros don't even register as viable to me. What's the oldest binary distro? Redhat or Debian?
Imagine the enormity of newbie kernel hackers if such a thing were beieved to be possible...
I can imagine a post to usenet now...
Subject: this damn thing wont compile
omg why are none of my win32 api calls working this sucks this will never be better than windows
And the ensuing reply...
Subject: Re: this damn thing won't compile
Uh huh. Well. It won't compile because your api calls are, uhm, frozen. Yeah. You need to unfreeze them. There should be a blue liquid in the trunk of your car called antifreeze. If you drink it all, and I do mean all of it, you'll be able to unfreeze your api calls.
I agree entirely. C++ in the Linux kernel is a largely bad idea.
I am all for the kernel remaining C forever, but just for the sake of curiosity's fancies, I wonder how much better Objective-C would be as a high level yet still high performance solution as opposed to the messier C++?
Does anyone else think that this a bit overkill. 60Gb is a LOT when you are just talking about music and pictures.
No way. I've been holding off on buying an ipod for two reasons. 1 price and 2. insufficient storage. When I buy an iPod, I want it to be able to hold my ENTIRE music collection (40gb+) and have room to spare for expansion of my collection, installing osx on the ipod, or general purpose storage.
I will consider getting the 60gb model, but I may just wait until 80gb models come out.
Firefox: 0.9.3-6 (my primary complaint about anything being outdated, latest: 1.0PR has a lot of nice features)
Go to mozilla.org and download firefox from there. The Linux installer is quite nice. I just tossed it in/opt and made a launcher in GNOME.
It works nicely in Debian, though I should warn you that some things, like the reply box on ars technica's forum, likes to routinely (but not always) crash it. I imagine it's little things like this that are why it's being kept out of unstable.
It works well enough for me to post on Slashdot though.;)
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I also run Debian unstable + experimental. I simply couldn't live without that GNOME 2.8 upgrade. I also compiled xorg 6.8 for the pretty shadows. Aside from xcompmgr crashing a lot (an internal xorg problem), Debian unstable + a major experimental package + a frigging compiled cvs X server has been stable as ever for me.
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You don't just pump money into something and say "make it good". If Sun isn't happy with *nix on the desktop, then they should start hashing out some specifics on what needs to be changed / added.
Personally I'm quite happy with *nix on the desktop minus a few largely inconsequential nitpicks here and there.
And possess less raw computational ability than my 12" laptop.
Quoth a student, "When the fuck does this embedded class end again?"
Boy I'd love to get my hands on the source of the Cisco Link Statnus meter so I could hack it and have a working LSM for my 350 series Cisco radiocard in Linux.
Not really. To me it seems like religion is bullshit. It's no different than being asked to believe in the Easter Bunny or Santa. As such, people who believe this stuff tend to have other ridiculous beliefs as well. But this is a politics article, not a religion article. You may feel free to dismiss my generalizations out of hand. I won't care.
With regards to your political argument, this may surprise you, but I agree entirely. Though if you took the time to read my post more thoroughly you might have found that, instead of being offended that I think religion is bullshit.
Bush won fair and square. BOTH times. He was merely working within the system. All we can do is change the system so that what happened in 2000 doesn't happen again.
Congratulations on your victory. May the next four years drive our economy further down the spiral, may our country further continue to piss off its allies, and may the President continue to lie to his people for the purpose of pushing his own agenda.
I for one don't ignore the painfully obvious with regards to politics or religion. Seems over half of America does.
I am anecdotally comparing your stern conservatism with that which was similarly argued by the southern conservatives attempting to preserve slavery in the 1800s. The liberals eventually one that fight. History, even conservative history, looks back on those days realizing that the liberals of the time were right.
I've no doubt that in 200 more years history will not look back kindly on Bush's actions as president.
Gore won the popular vote and that's all that should matter. Structuring the votes via electoral college to suppress the voice of populated states and amplify the voice of the less popular states represents an obviously inaccurate view of majority. This is in no way fair.
I don't care what the forefathers had in mind. This system sucks and it needs to be changed. We've had plenty of amendments to the constitution since its birth. Plenty of room for one more. Bush should never have been appointed president in 2000.
But it's done. That said, Bush won the popular vote this time around. Kerry has no right to challenge the results of the election. As much as I hate Bush, he won this time fair and square. There's nothing the law can do against uninformed conservative religious hick voters supporting Bush and blindly as their religion.
Server? What use is a desktop environment on a server? All you need to run a server is a Linux distro and a TUI.
Slackware is a source distro.
All the Debian installs I've done have been as simple as:
1. boot livecd
2. partition and install base system
3. install grub
4. reboot
5. boot debian
6. get terminal
7. ???
8. profit!!!
Done. Want X? Install it. Don't want X? Don't install it.
IMHO Debian is the best OS for Linux servers. As a desktop its a bit more sketchy though. I use it, but you have to run unstable and even experimental packages to get any kind of desktop system that's up to date. But it works. So it's my distro. I use none other.
Source distros don't even register as viable to me. What's the oldest binary distro? Redhat or Debian?
I can imagine a post to usenet now...And the ensuing reply...
I agree entirely. C++ in the Linux kernel is a largely bad idea.
I am all for the kernel remaining C forever, but just for the sake of curiosity's fancies, I wonder how much better Objective-C would be as a high level yet still high performance solution as opposed to the messier C++?
You may also feel free to deposit money into my bank account. I wouldn't mind that either.
Price per gigabyte is my main concern. As newer models come out, the average cost you pay per gigabyte of storage decreases.
I will consider getting the 60gb model, but I may just wait until 80gb models come out.
It works nicely in Debian, though I should warn you that some things, like the reply box on ars technica's forum, likes to routinely (but not always) crash it. I imagine it's little things like this that are why it's being kept out of unstable.
It works well enough for me to post on Slashdot though.
I also run Debian unstable + experimental. I simply couldn't live without that GNOME 2.8 upgrade. I also compiled xorg 6.8 for the pretty shadows. Aside from xcompmgr crashing a lot (an internal xorg problem), Debian unstable + a major experimental package + a frigging compiled cvs X server has been stable as ever for me.
Trust me on this one.
I can get free books for using Safari in Mac OS X? Cool!