Same here. Despite the obvious conclusion that something like this would devolve into a geo-political flamewar, the topic itself has nothing to do with politics. Unless in Zonk's mind, 40 or more people being killed via bombs is just politics. Just more slashdot editor idiocy.
We had a Woody to Sarge upgrade fail on boot because Lilo barfed a kernel panic on root mount. Installing grub fixed it. I forgot how the lilo was set up prior to sarge, but whatever. My suggestion if you have SATA root mounts: Install grub before installing Sarge!
but I haven't run into any sites lately that require IE. Recent Mozilla handles everything just fine. Apart form some minor rendering weirdness on a few sites I haven't had to jump over to IE for anything.
You know, just hit refresh on a voting poll that doesn't check for IP or needs a username;) Though seriously, if there are going to be bulk complains the information regarding what organization is behind such things should be made publically available. The same thing with huge financial "donations" to politician election campaigns.
On second thought MS would probably cry "copyright infringment!" on a site with all their various EULA's (I'm guessing). But I can just imagine all the work done in their legal department just for crafting or updating EULA's for each new big release.
I know it's mostly apples to oranges, but considering how infrequently the GPL is updated comparing this with both the size and likely tweaking of a standard MS EULA would hopefully be a good arguing point with possible Linux converts. Anyone know of a repository of EULAs and how frequently they get updated?
ED4/AOD2 will be a prequel, complete with how the "Evil Dead" became evil (he was a young "Good" before), and how an odd-talking floppy-eared swamp lizard drove him insane.
Red Hat just announced the purchase of the Netscape Directory Server and Certificate Management System from AOL, which seems to be a slight departure from the usual business plan.
What I don't get is if Red Hat acquired Netscape Directory Service why are they still claiming to be focusing on the "desktop" when Novell's NDS is Linux-friendly. Is it mostly because of the proprietary nature of NDS? I just hope there isn't too much duplication of effort with the directory services biz.
What I would love to see is a micro-ATX board with one of these chips to be used as a multimedia PC-TV unit. Something fairly beefy to act as a good PVR but not need a lot of power (or space) for huge heat sinks and lots of cooling fans.
Sounds like someone solving a non-problem, as usual.
The supposed problem is the supposed cash loss due to piracy, so naturally Hollywood will want theaters to pay for these devides (despite the fact that they could simply be turned off via a small bribe to the theater operator for a particular showing). And with the increased cost will come increased ticket prices. I wonder if movie execs do studies on just how much a movie go'er will pay for a movie. I haven't been in a theater in a few years, so I don't even know how much tickets are these days. Not to mention the price of a simple beverage...
Sure, depends on how much data you have. Hard drives are so commodity these days though I'd think it is cheaper to RAID a few 200Gig'ers opposed to maintaining a lot of 1Gig'ers for things like music archives, etc.
It's certainly "duh" for techies, but for the n00b crowd I think they hear "digital" and think "permanent". The way some things are marketed (like satelite TV, etc) they associate "digital" with high-tech, just-write-a-CD-and-forget-about-it. It's hard enough to get people to back up their data, it will be even harder to convice some that their media isn't permanent.
Short of having titanium punchcards with your data bits punched in (and even then...) you are simply going to have to keep backing up and backing up. I'd rather have my data on 2 new hard drives than a dozen decade-old ones.
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You're right. The conservatives mantra is "think of the fetus".
...And of course, the RMS types would say "Free as in fetus."
Same here. Despite the obvious conclusion that something like this would devolve into a geo-political flamewar, the topic itself has nothing to do with politics. Unless in Zonk's mind, 40 or more people being killed via bombs is just politics. Just more slashdot editor idiocy.
"DVD Jon" breaks wind, Yahoo! news is there!
We had a Woody to Sarge upgrade fail on boot because Lilo barfed a kernel panic on root mount. Installing grub fixed it. I forgot how the lilo was set up prior to sarge, but whatever. My suggestion if you have SATA root mounts: Install grub before installing Sarge!
I was thinking it was a IE/Zilla plugin. D'oh!
If it involves installing 3rd party software locally then I'll stick with the plain web interface. Why can't they do this with DHTML?
but I haven't run into any sites lately that require IE. Recent Mozilla handles everything just fine. Apart form some minor rendering weirdness on a few sites I haven't had to jump over to IE for anything.
It's here, it's (basically) free. Why not use it?
Also, who is Linus Trolvalds?
that if someone did hack it, the admins will reset it quickly and block the particular method?
Looks like an interesting workstation distro, but how does it handle as a server?
This April fools Feels particularly uninspired
So it's like every April Fools Day on Slashdot for the past 5 or so years...
You know, just hit refresh on a voting poll that doesn't check for IP or needs a username ;) Though seriously, if there are going to be bulk complains the information regarding what organization is behind such things should be made publically available. The same thing with huge financial "donations" to politician election campaigns.
On second thought MS would probably cry "copyright infringment!" on a site with all their various EULA's (I'm guessing). But I can just imagine all the work done in their legal department just for crafting or updating EULA's for each new big release.
I know it's mostly apples to oranges, but considering how infrequently the GPL is updated comparing this with both the size and likely tweaking of a standard MS EULA would hopefully be a good arguing point with possible Linux converts. Anyone know of a repository of EULAs and how frequently they get updated?
ED4/AOD2 will be a prequel, complete with how the "Evil Dead" became evil (he was a young "Good" before), and how an odd-talking floppy-eared swamp lizard drove him insane.
But if you must, put more boobies in it!
I think the proper term is "Trekkian American", "Trekkian Canadian", etc...
Red Hat just announced the purchase of the Netscape Directory Server and Certificate Management System from AOL, which seems to be a slight departure from the usual business plan.
What I don't get is if Red Hat acquired Netscape Directory Service why are they still claiming to be focusing on the "desktop" when Novell's NDS is Linux-friendly. Is it mostly because of the proprietary nature of NDS? I just hope there isn't too much duplication of effort with the directory services biz.
I copied the URL from the wrong tab. Anyways I found a good site starting at GnuPG's site. Silly me, do a preview next time.
I'd point people here first, then to a few other links that other people have pointed out. The article linked is a bit terse for a newbie.
What I would love to see is a micro-ATX board with one of these chips to be used as a multimedia PC-TV unit. Something fairly beefy to act as a good PVR but not need a lot of power (or space) for huge heat sinks and lots of cooling fans.
Sounds like someone solving a non-problem, as usual.
The supposed problem is the supposed cash loss due to piracy, so naturally Hollywood will want theaters to pay for these devides (despite the fact that they could simply be turned off via a small bribe to the theater operator for a particular showing). And with the increased cost will come increased ticket prices. I wonder if movie execs do studies on just how much a movie go'er will pay for a movie. I haven't been in a theater in a few years, so I don't even know how much tickets are these days. Not to mention the price of a simple beverage...
Sure, depends on how much data you have. Hard drives are so commodity these days though I'd think it is cheaper to RAID a few 200Gig'ers opposed to maintaining a lot of 1Gig'ers for things like music archives, etc.
It's certainly "duh" for techies, but for the n00b crowd I think they hear "digital" and think "permanent". The way some things are marketed (like satelite TV, etc) they associate "digital" with high-tech, just-write-a-CD-and-forget-about-it. It's hard enough to get people to back up their data, it will be even harder to convice some that their media isn't permanent.
Short of having titanium punchcards with your data bits punched in (and even then...) you are simply going to have to keep backing up and backing up. I'd rather have my data on 2 new hard drives than a dozen decade-old ones.