Overdrinking? Hmpf. Back in Europe, a year or so ago, I went to a "Night of the ad eaters" show. Middle of the summer, very hot weather, and the only cold drink to be found was Red Bull. I must have drunk 6 or 7 cans during the night, then went home at 6:30 AM and slept like a log. Can't imagine how can one die from drinking such a lousy "energy drink".
Um, because universities are free to do with their money whatever they see fit? And somehow I don't blame them for starting a new, clean, high performance network with restricted access for academic purposes ONLY instead of merrily pumping more money into more bandwidth for Joe Freeloader's porn-surfing pleasure.
At least that would be my answer to this question...
Except by that time those of us who like to freely share information would already have hopped on to Internet 2, which would be declared by law off-limits to all commercial enterprise. And WE will live happily ever after within our realm of free information while THEIR world will gradually spin out of control into anarchy. Tee hee...
However, that doesn't change the fact that there're some computer-related activites for which Windows is the better answer, either because more commercial developers supports it or the software requires less effort to install-and-use.
So until Linux fully addresses these issues (something which, as much as I'm a fan of Linux, I doubt will every fully happen), there will be a need for some people to install and use Windows. Claiming otherwise is at best misguided advocacy and at worst trolling.
Excuse me? Windows is not the better answer for anything. Windows is just the product of some company. And if a company annoys me with heavy-handed monopolistic practices and arrogance I will NOT use any of their products period, no matter who they are and what they sell. Doesn't matter how many or how good are the choices available, either. If I value animal rights more than my eating habits, I become a vegan. If I value freedom more than money, I use free software. It's a matter of ethics over convenience
Now I don't have anything against people who place more value on convenience, it's their business not mine. But if you don't have enough spine to stand up for your own beliefs, please don't call me a troll.
That's why I love Konqueror so much. Check the box that says "Disable window.open" and you get rid of popup ads forever. I wish all browsers had such an option...
My question is why should people hate Microsoft at all? I think they should just avoid them. If enough people do this, Microsoft will go away by itself...
Hm. Frankly, I couldn't care less about them. Really. I run GNU/Linux and free software apps on my workstation at work, on my desktop computer, on my firewall, on my laptop, on my PDA, on every damn thing in my house that has a microprocessor and memory, and I've done so for quite a long time. And before GNU/Linux I had OS/2. Microsoft has never seen a cent from me.
And there's a constantly growing crowd of others like me, who switch to free software and stay with it. We're forming a community, we have a voice loud enough to make governments listen. People are becoming more aware of critical issues in the software world, and less likely to blindly believe everything Microsoft throws at them. More and more industry heavyweights are pushing for adoption of open standards and transparency exactly where Microsoft would like to have its proprietary "extensions" hooked. And there's not a damn thing they can do about it. From their point of view, the GPL *is* like PacMan. You keep eating the ghosts and they keep popping right up again, over and over, until one of them eventually eats *you*.
So yeah, I think that 1) the GPL scares the living sh*t out of them (the sound of their latest statements is the sound of panic) and 2) the best thing we can do about Microsoft is completely ignore them. Ignoring them would save us a lot of time, and would probably scare them even more.:-)
I hope this will go towards clearing the bootup logs so that they only show useful debugging info, not towards establishing some sort of "pretty boot" as default. At the very least I hope it will leave me with a choice. If I wanted my computer to show pretty pictures when it boots, I would have bought a Macintosh or something.
I used this kind of setup in a project at some company I worked for one time, to support the warehouse management application I had written (*please* don't ask why a warehouse management app needed X... thank you). Beefed-up server (multi-processor, RAID, the works) and 10 diskless terminals w/ remote boot and root via NFS. And RedHat Linux 6.2.
Worked like a charm. The terminals were all cheapo 133 MHz AMD's with S3 graphics cards, worthless for pretty much anything else. Did so well as X terminals, they are still using them today. Of course, they were all on 100 Mb Ethernet though...
...in order to run it's GUI plus a web browser and word processor
...and a web server and a JRE and a software DVD player (thank you SigmaDesign for not releasing the specs on em8300) and a MySQL server and Gimp - at least that's what I'm running on a regular basis
I dunno about you, but I'd rather spend my money on kick-ass hardware to run my bloated GNU/Linux apps on than working on a prehistoric PC because I ran out of cash for the next decade after buying Photoshop and Visual Studio (and WindowsXP and OfficeXP and SQL Server - you get the idea).
I wouldn't know why WindowsXP runs slow, because I don't run Windows and I'd rather keep my mouth shut than express an uninformed opinion. I can however tell you that *GNU/Linux* runs slow because it's bloated (at least the distro I'm using is), and that's precisely the reason why I upgraded. What exactly is wrong with that?
Of course upgrading is the only option if you choose a bloated distro for your desktop machine, and that's perfectly OK with me, because I want to be able to do all sorts of fancy stuff with my desktop PC. On the other hand, the GNU/Linux flavors I run on my laptop and PDA are very slim and run pretty fast on little CPU/memory. I don't know about windows, but GNU/Linux is whatver you want it to be.
Hehe. I used to think the same way until not long ago. Then I got my AMD Thunderbird/1GHz + 512 MB DDR RAM, and presto! Everything in the Linux world suddenly became a whole lot faster. Even StarOffice.
I was born in Europe and lived there for 25 years. And when I mentioned americanophobia I wasn't trying to homogenize European culture. I was merely referring to *official* (as in government-adopted) attitude. Most European countries have laws that protect their precious cultural identity from the "scary American mass culture invasion". Like forcing radio stations to play a certain amount of local content, for example, or taxing the hell out of hollywood blockbusters to finance their local cinematographic production. Or looking the other way when local farmers trash McDonalds restaurants. This kind of attitude...
A lot of the European intellectuals consider americans to be quite pathetic. Usually posts like this will attract a few of the "Yah!? Well we can NUKE the shit out of your little country!!"
That would just prove that they *are* quite pathetic, wouldn't it?:-) But then, hey, Europe has its share of clueless average Joes, as well as America has its share of intelligent and creative people. America is more than McDonalds and Coca Cola just as Europe is more than mad cows and French croissants. Stereotyping will get you nowhere.
More likely this is part of the ongoing americanophobia that runs rampant in Europe (you know, the place where they equate America with mcdonalds + hollywood + cocacola), and Microsoft's only fault here is that it happens to be an American company. Europeans are as brainwashed into believing everything marketing depts throw at them as the next guy, but at least the more intellectual types tend to be tuned to European propaganda rather than American hype.
Even though I consider the above attitude quite silly, if it's going to cut into at least some of Microsoft's monopolistic arrogance, I say more power to them...
So what's stopping SUN or IBM or whoever to provide a competing service based on open standards and convince Joe consumers to use THEIR flavor of authentication?
No really. Why should anyone in the free software/open source communities give a rat's ass about what microsoft does? I know that as long as something is made by Microsoft, I won't use it. And as long as there's a free software community I'll share my software with them. Microsoft can go to hell. They can't make me use their software, no matter what they do.
So c'mon people, let's spend less time bitching about microsoft and more time providing ourselves with the software that we want. I can understand journalists, they can't help blabbing on about microsoft vs. open source, it's their job (and I bet they're praising the patron saint of journalism right now for such a long-running and juicy story source as the oss-microsoft war). But us? We have far better things to do...
Will the next major release feature some decent documentation? Extensive documentation is the only thing I miss from GNUCash. Having only recently come to live in the US, I have enough trouble understanding the local economics, so it would be good to have a nice tutorial for my personal finance management program as a starting point.
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Well, what do you expect from a country where alcohol retail is a state monopoly?
Overdrinking? Hmpf. Back in Europe, a year or so ago, I went to a "Night of the ad eaters" show. Middle of the summer, very hot weather, and the only cold drink to be found was Red Bull. I must have drunk 6 or 7 cans during the night, then went home at 6:30 AM and slept like a log. Can't imagine how can one die from drinking such a lousy "energy drink".
Um, because universities are free to do with their money whatever they see fit? And somehow I don't blame them for starting a new, clean, high performance network with restricted access for academic purposes ONLY instead of merrily pumping more money into more bandwidth for Joe Freeloader's porn-surfing pleasure.
At least that would be my answer to this question...
Except by that time those of us who like to freely share information would already have hopped on to Internet 2, which would be declared by law off-limits to all commercial enterprise. And WE will live happily ever after within our realm of free information while THEIR world will gradually spin out of control into anarchy. Tee hee...
However, that doesn't change the fact that there're some computer-related activites for which Windows is the better answer, either because more commercial developers supports it or the software requires less effort to install-and-use.
So until Linux fully addresses these issues (something which, as much as I'm a fan of Linux, I doubt will every fully happen), there will be a need for some people to install and use Windows. Claiming otherwise is at best misguided advocacy and at worst trolling.
Excuse me? Windows is not the better answer for anything. Windows is just the product of some company. And if a company annoys me with heavy-handed monopolistic practices and arrogance I will NOT use any of their products period, no matter who they are and what they sell. Doesn't matter how many or how good are the choices available, either. If I value animal rights more than my eating habits, I become a vegan. If I value freedom more than money, I use free software. It's a matter of ethics over convenience
Now I don't have anything against people who place more value on convenience, it's their business not mine. But if you don't have enough spine to stand up for your own beliefs, please don't call me a troll.
I know he meant "iteration", but the first thing that popped into my mind when I first read the story was, for some reason, "interaction". Hmm.
That's why I love Konqueror so much. Check the box that says "Disable window.open" and you get rid of popup ads forever. I wish all browsers had such an option...
My question is why should people hate Microsoft at all? I think they should just avoid them. If enough people do this, Microsoft will go away by itself...
Hm. Frankly, I couldn't care less about them. Really. I run GNU/Linux and free software apps on my workstation at work, on my desktop computer, on my firewall, on my laptop, on my PDA, on every damn thing in my house that has a microprocessor and memory, and I've done so for quite a long time. And before GNU/Linux I had OS/2. Microsoft has never seen a cent from me.
:-)
And there's a constantly growing crowd of others like me, who switch to free software and stay with it. We're forming a community, we have a voice loud enough to make governments listen. People are becoming more aware of critical issues in the software world, and less likely to blindly believe everything Microsoft throws at them. More and more industry heavyweights are pushing for adoption of open standards and transparency exactly where Microsoft would like to have its proprietary "extensions" hooked. And there's not a damn thing they can do about it. From their point of view, the GPL *is* like PacMan. You keep eating the ghosts and they keep popping right up again, over and over, until one of them eventually eats *you*.
So yeah, I think that 1) the GPL scares the living sh*t out of them (the sound of their latest statements is the sound of panic) and 2) the best thing we can do about Microsoft is completely ignore them. Ignoring them would save us a lot of time, and would probably scare them even more.
the second commercial filing system for Linux to reach the exalted 1.0 status!
Is that something I would run on my filing cabinet?
I hope this will go towards clearing the bootup logs so that they only show useful debugging info, not towards establishing some sort of "pretty boot" as default. At the very least I hope it will leave me with a choice. If I wanted my computer to show pretty pictures when it boots, I would have bought a Macintosh or something.
yet how do you ever learn to do something other than by trying to reinvent the wheel?
Um, I thought that's what HOWTO's were for...
I used this kind of setup in a project at some company I worked for one time, to support the warehouse management application I had written (*please* don't ask why a warehouse management app needed X... thank you). Beefed-up server (multi-processor, RAID, the works) and 10 diskless terminals w/ remote boot and root via NFS. And RedHat Linux 6.2.
Worked like a charm. The terminals were all cheapo 133 MHz AMD's with S3 graphics cards, worthless for pretty much anything else. Did so well as X terminals, they are still using them today. Of course, they were all on 100 Mb Ethernet though...
I would mod you up if you weren't blatantly rippin off this bbspot story.
Why is there no "-1, Ripoff?"
...in order to run it's GUI plus a web browser and word processor
...and a web server and a JRE and a software DVD player (thank you SigmaDesign for not releasing the specs on em8300) and a MySQL server and Gimp - at least that's what I'm running on a regular basis
I dunno about you, but I'd rather spend my money on kick-ass hardware to run my bloated GNU/Linux apps on than working on a prehistoric PC because I ran out of cash for the next decade after buying Photoshop and Visual Studio (and WindowsXP and OfficeXP and SQL Server - you get the idea).
I wouldn't know why WindowsXP runs slow, because I don't run Windows and I'd rather keep my mouth shut than express an uninformed opinion. I can however tell you that *GNU/Linux* runs slow because it's bloated (at least the distro I'm using is), and that's precisely the reason why I upgraded. What exactly is wrong with that?
Of course upgrading is the only option if you choose a bloated distro for your desktop machine, and that's perfectly OK with me, because I want to be able to do all sorts of fancy stuff with my desktop PC. On the other hand, the GNU/Linux flavors I run on my laptop and PDA are very slim and run pretty fast on little CPU/memory. I don't know about windows, but GNU/Linux is whatver you want it to be.
Hehe. I used to think the same way until not long ago. Then I got my AMD Thunderbird/1GHz + 512 MB DDR RAM, and presto! Everything in the Linux world suddenly became a whole lot faster. Even StarOffice.
Have you ever been to Europe?
I was born in Europe and lived there for 25 years. And when I mentioned americanophobia I wasn't trying to homogenize European culture. I was merely referring to *official* (as in government-adopted) attitude. Most European countries have laws that protect their precious cultural identity from the "scary American mass culture invasion". Like forcing radio stations to play a certain amount of local content, for example, or taxing the hell out of hollywood blockbusters to finance their local cinematographic production. Or looking the other way when local farmers trash McDonalds restaurants. This kind of attitude...
A lot of the European intellectuals consider americans to be quite pathetic. Usually posts like this will attract a few of the "Yah!? Well we can NUKE the shit out of your little country!!"
:-) But then, hey, Europe has its share of clueless average Joes, as well as America has its share of intelligent and creative people. America is more than McDonalds and Coca Cola just as Europe is more than mad cows and French croissants. Stereotyping will get you nowhere.
That would just prove that they *are* quite pathetic, wouldn't it?
More likely this is part of the ongoing americanophobia that runs rampant in Europe (you know, the place where they equate America with mcdonalds + hollywood + cocacola), and Microsoft's only fault here is that it happens to be an American company. Europeans are as brainwashed into believing everything marketing depts throw at them as the next guy, but at least the more intellectual types tend to be tuned to European propaganda rather than American hype.
Even though I consider the above attitude quite silly, if it's going to cut into at least some of Microsoft's monopolistic arrogance, I say more power to them...
So what's stopping SUN or IBM or whoever to provide a competing service based on open standards and convince Joe consumers to use THEIR flavor of authentication?
No really. Why should anyone in the free software/open source communities give a rat's ass about what microsoft does? I know that as long as something is made by Microsoft, I won't use it. And as long as there's a free software community I'll share my software with them. Microsoft can go to hell. They can't make me use their software, no matter what they do.
So c'mon people, let's spend less time bitching about microsoft and more time providing ourselves with the software that we want. I can understand journalists, they can't help blabbing on about microsoft vs. open source, it's their job (and I bet they're praising the patron saint of journalism right now for such a long-running and juicy story source as the oss-microsoft war). But us? We have far better things to do...
Will the next major release feature some decent documentation? Extensive documentation is the only thing I miss from GNUCash. Having only recently come to live in the US, I have enough trouble understanding the local economics, so it would be good to have a nice tutorial for my personal finance management program as a starting point.
The Perl strict pragma will not be mandatory in Perl 6, but it will probably be the default. Happy? :-)
What, now the licenses have bugs too? I'd better start asking my lawyer what debugger he uses...