I cannot believe that Elite is missing from the list... it defined the space combat simulator, and still has not been matched, especially by Wing Commander.
And how often does a new kernel upgrade come out? It seems like I've only just finished downloading the source and compiled before it's time to start all over again. My Linux servers are up and down like a cheap tart's knickers (although with fewer holes);-)
You mean, who gets to stay out of everything, claiming its nothing to do with them, and only actually having the guts to step in and do anything when they get attacked themselves; and then claim to have won the war on their own. If the Battle of Britain had been won by the Germans (to extend the current analogy), the US would never have attempted to liberate Europe until after the deployment of the Atom Bomb. Now there's an an analogy to be made!
Have you actually tried using Netscape for Linux? A couple of days so-called usage made me run screaming back to my NT Workstation with IE5. Netscape for Linux is *the* buggiest application I have ever had to use (other than Windows 95 on a faulty laptop). Even the Windows 95 beta was more stable!
We had 5.2, then upgraded to 6.0 and then 6.1. And guess what? It still sucks! RH change stuff around willy-nilly, it seems, and it takes quite some time to figure out what they've changed this time that has broken our network (80% Linux Servers, 20% NT). And those NT servers just keep running...:-)
I think the frequency with which Linux bug fixes/upgrades are released is causing more problems than the alleged (from my POV) instability of NT!
It's quite amusing really - the US/Japanese governments are really to blame for this, with their frankly pathetic attempts to control encryption technology.
If a mere user like myself can encrypt at 4096 bits using PGP, it's laughable that DVD was limited to 40 bits (or whatever).
No-one *really* loses out over DeCSS until DVD recorders hit the marketplace. I mean, the hardware you need to store and playback a 9Gb.VOB file, you might as well buy yourself a home-cinema DVD player and a handful of titles, and watch DVD the way God intended - on a TV. DVD playback quality on a PC frankly sucks, even on a hardware-accelerated machine; and you could buy a 36-inch TV for the cost of a 21" monitor!
Let's be honest here - the only reason that Linux has really been taken up as rapidly as it has is the price. If you had to pay as much for Linux as you did for Solaris or HP-UX, face it, you wouldn't.
Imagine going to the board of directors and saying "I want to spend tens of thousands of pounds to upgrade my servers [presumably NT:-) ] to Linux because, well, heck because I want to and I personally don't like Microsoft". I mean, how much ice would that cut?
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I cannot believe that Elite is missing from the list... it defined the space combat simulator, and still has not been matched, especially by Wing Commander.
And how often does a new kernel upgrade come out? It seems like I've only just finished downloading the source and compiled before it's time to start all over again. My Linux servers are up and down like a cheap tart's knickers (although with fewer holes) ;-)
Who gets to play America?
You mean, who gets to stay out of everything, claiming its nothing to do with them, and only actually having the guts to step in and do anything when they get attacked themselves; and then claim to have won the war on their own. If the Battle of Britain had been won by the Germans (to extend the current analogy), the US would never have attempted to liberate Europe until after the deployment of the Atom Bomb. Now there's an an analogy to be made!
> ...make using Netscape "a harrowing experience"
Have you actually tried using Netscape for Linux? A couple of days so-called usage made me run screaming back to my NT Workstation with IE5. Netscape for Linux is *the* buggiest application I have ever had to use (other than Windows 95 on a faulty laptop). Even the Windows 95 beta was more stable!
Oh come on!
:-)
Every new RedHat release breaks our network big style. Someone remind me why we ditched NT for Linux? Something about not so many bugs, wasn't it?
We had 5.2, then upgraded to 6.0 and then 6.1. And guess what? It still sucks! RH change stuff around willy-nilly, it seems, and it takes quite some time to figure out what they've changed this time that has broken our network (80% Linux Servers, 20% NT). And those NT servers just keep running... :-)
I think the frequency with which Linux bug fixes/upgrades are released is causing more problems than the alleged (from my POV) instability of NT!
It's quite amusing really - the US/Japanese governments are really to blame for this, with their frankly pathetic attempts to control encryption technology.
.VOB file, you might as well buy yourself a home-cinema DVD player and a handful of titles, and watch DVD the way God intended - on a TV. DVD playback quality on a PC frankly sucks, even on a hardware-accelerated machine; and you could buy a 36-inch TV for the cost of a 21" monitor!
If a mere user like myself can encrypt at 4096 bits using PGP, it's laughable that DVD was limited to 40 bits (or whatever).
No-one *really* loses out over DeCSS until DVD recorders hit the marketplace. I mean, the hardware you need to store and playback a 9Gb
Let's be honest here - the only reason that Linux has really been taken up as rapidly as it has is the price. If you had to pay as much for Linux as you did for Solaris or HP-UX, face it, you wouldn't.
:-) ] to Linux because, well, heck because I want to and I personally don't like Microsoft". I mean, how much ice would that cut?
Imagine going to the board of directors and saying "I want to spend tens of thousands of pounds to upgrade my servers [presumably NT