Err.. uh.. I'm not sure what you are talking about, but you can't do an install of SuSE 9.1 off of the FTP servers before it is released -- it certainly doesn't install from SRPMS, if that is what you are implying.
The updates come from the exact same source in both the FTP installs and the CD installs.
9.1 is released. The source is out on FTP. Its what this whole slashdot story is about.
My point is that it is not available via FTP right now and won't be anytime soon. The only way to get it is to pay for it or obtain through unofficial means (which is questionable for security reasons).
I agree that fast moving bikes should use the road, except
So get out in the road where you belong, but, when you get there. .. act like a vehicle.
I don't agree with that. This month here in Ohio some guy on a bike was killed by a car. He was in the middle of the road about to make a left turn just like a car would, only a fast moving car coming up behind him decided cross onto the other side of the road to pass him like you'd usually pass a bike. He would up turning left and the car hit him.
When I have to ride my bike on main roads (which I try to avoid) I always stay as far to the right as possible. If I have to turn left or go to the other side, I stop on the corner and cross with pedestrian traffic.
Drivers seem to get confused when bikes are acting just like cars...
if your too lazy to buy the distro, just do a ftp install...
Doing an FTP install is only an option if you can afford to wait a month or two for bugfixes (unless you build everything from source). They aren't releasing the binary RPMs for 9.1 onto their FTP servers until June.
I have 9.0 on my system. YaST2 segfaults every time I try and use the package manager or update portion of it ever since I changed my install path to a local directory. I reported the bug & sent them a backtrace and never got a response, presumably because it is either fixed in 9.1 or they're done with 9.0 now that 9.1 is out.
So you can't rely on an FTP install when the latest version availble via FTP lags a few months behind.
Overall I thought 9.0 was pretty good (albeit kind of buggy). I haven't yet decided wether I will just start shelling out to get 9.1 and subsequent releases or switch to something else. I'm waiting on Fedora core 2 to decide.
And either way, Hussein deliberately acted in such a way that the only conclusion anybody on the outside reached -- and that included the UN, France, Germany, Canada, and Russia -- was that he had retained them. Everybody thought Iraq had them; the only controversy was over the method of getting rid of them
Do you have any sources/proof that the UN, France, Germany, Canada, and Russia agreed with the US's estimation of Iraq's WMDs just prior to gulf war II?
Damn right. As we all know, there was no progress in the human race whatsoever before the beginning of patents a few hundred years ago. The human race idly sat in the status quo for thousands of years with no technological advancement whatsoever. Then one day patents were created and we began to advance beyond cave men.
With that kind of track record it is clear that progress will stop of patents ceased to exist.
This makes a ghost tree that is just hard links to the real tree. When a file is rsynced, rsync actually deletes and replaces the old file instead of changing the original file. This means you can use these hard links to track file revisions, and the idea is very similar to "copy-on-write".
That's not what hard links are... hard links are indistinguishable from the original file. If you make a hard link, modify the hard link then you'll see the changes in the "original" as well.
A copy on write snapshot does not change when you change the live version of the filesystem.
Is it possible now or in the near future to do an update from 9.0 to 9.1 using just YaST, without downloading new CD images?
Not anytime soon. I've been watching for the RPMS for 9.1 to appear on their server ever since 9.1 was released... First they had a note that said they would be available in a few days (posted April 22), and a few days ago they changed that to say that it would not be available until June.
This is driving me nuts. There are some major bugs in 9.0 that they didn't fix... YaST segfaults whenever I change the install source directory. I'm gonna wind up switching distros... I'm not gonna wait 1.5+ months for bug fixes.
Ohwell, I guess I can't complain... I didn't pay for 9.0 to begin with, and the source code for 9.1 has been available.
I know Datel's GBA for GCN accessory uses a pure software emulator. But if the Game Boy Player accessory also uses a pure software emulator, then how do carts with custom hardware, such as Boktai and bankswitched flash carts, work if the Game Boy Player doesn't already know about them? And why does the manual have warnings about turning off the rumble in Game Boy Color games? And why does the Game Boy Player's motherboard have a chip labeled "CPU AGB" like the GBA's? And how does the older Super Game Boy accessory for Super NES work if the Game Boy's processor is actually faster than that of the Super NES?
Idunno*5. All I can say is that the software for the GB player looks the same as the software in the obviously emulated GB games embedded in GC games. I've never taken the GB player apart to see what is in it, I will have to some time. I guess if there's a CPU then I guess the GB player does run the game in hardware and it isn't an emulator.
No, I do think it is an emulator, because several GC games have gameboy games ebmedded in them (metroid prime and I believe animal crossing) and they have the same interface, same options and works the same and evertyhing as the gameboy player. So I think it is a software emulator because they appear to be using it in other games (which don't have any hardware).
Granted, $60 for $10 worth of A/V adapter parts is pretty obscene
The $60 he's talking about is for the gameboy player for gamecube. It isn't an AV adapter, it is actually a box that hooks up to the cube and allows you to plug GBA cartridges in. They give you a disc for the cube which is a software GBA emulator that'll run the game on the cartridge on the cube. So the game is actually running on the cube so you can use its controllers and you don't have extra cables to run.
Given the quality of those releases, it was obvious long before the official announcement that what they were peddling as a "consumer" distro was becoming a rolling beta. I've been deliriously happy with SuSE
You're unhappy with the unstable nature of redhat, and you find SuSE to be better in that respect? I don't follow you there.
I was a long time redhat user like yourself and switched to SuSE 9 a few months ago. But I'm not horribly impressed with it, especially from a stability standpoint. Right after I first installed it, my system would lock up solid every time the screen saver or screen powerdown would kick in (probably something to do with the pre-release Xfree86 they decided to ship). A later update fixed that.
But now I decided to copy all the RPMs to my hard drive so I wouldn't have to juggle the 5 CDs every time I wanted to install something. So I pointed Yast at the location where I'm storing the RPMs... and now YaST segfaults every time I pull up the package management portion of it... haven't seen any updates for this one yet.
I also tried installing the NVidia's nvidia X driver, which is available as an update on YOU. Yast would report success when installing it, but it never actually got installed. I finnally found a log file from the nvidia installer about what was wrong. But YaST just acted like it all worked fine.
And that's just some of the problems I've had. And I'm not running this on funky hardware either. I had RedHat 7.2 on year for over a year and never had a problem. Now I'm thinking of switching back to Fedora. RedHat wasn't exactly Debian stable, but it was never this bad (ok, except for maybe 8).
Geeks invoke Fair-Use as a cop-out from facing the legal and moral responsibilities for their actions which are, IN FACT [...] illegally breaking a copyright-protection scheme
I don't know about you, but I don't have any moral responsibilities to surrender my rights to my private property to further someone else's interests.
If someone legally sells a copy of something to me, that copy is mine, period. I have no moral qualms whatsoever about modifying property that is mine. If you think it is at all immoral to play DVDs on linux or crack your iTunes songs then you believe that any of the copyright holder's rights trump your rights to your private property.
I think I'll just stick to worrying about my rights and those of like minded people. I'm pretty sure that the media corporations have enough laywers looking out for their rights. They don't need my help, or yours either.
Not at all. It is a fact that God exists, it is merely one that cannot be proven. A fact does not only become a fact when it is proven. A fact has always been a fact, no matter who doesn't know it.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition would disagree with you:
fact ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fkt) n.
1. Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy.
2.
a. Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed: Genetic engineering is now a fact. That Chaucer was a real person is an undisputed fact.
b. A real occurrence; an event: had to prove the facts of the case.
c. Something believed to be true or real: a document laced with mistaken facts.
3. A thing that has been done, especially a crime: an accessory before the fact.
You might say that you have "Knowledge or information based on real occurrences", the occurrances being events described in the bible. However the only "proof" that Jesus had any supernatural nature was by the few miracles, and that those happened cannot be prooven. Everything else you're expected to accept on faith.
If someone tells you that something is a fact, then surely it's reasonable to say that "to them, it is a fact"? That might mean "they believe that it is a fact", but they themselves may consider it a fact rather than a belief.
The religious consider it a fact rather than a belief? I'm not following you there. Belief in something with no proof whatsoever requires faith. Faith is the foundation of religion.
You seem to be splitting hairs over my definition of the word 'believe', but that wasn't my point... my point was that in a religion, you accept something on pure faith. You accept the fact that there's no proof of what you're being told and there may never be any proof in your lifetime, but you have faith in it anyway.
To Christians, it's illogical to say that the pledge is unconstitutional for saying a fact (that God exists).
That God exists isn't a fact to anyone - not even Christians. It is a belief to them. That's the whole point of any religion. If it were a fact and not a belief then it would be a science and not a religion, and you woulndn't need faith to believe it.
Oh, you're talking about the phrase "under God"!? Yeah, it's pretty clear that that does establish a religion... hmmm... but which religion does it establish?
Christianity. The only religion that refers to its diety as "God" in english (not to be confused with "A god" or "the god" or "god" (no capital G)).
What are the rules of this religion?
They're documented in the bible. Well, the parts of it that modern Christianity adheres to anyway.
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The people who think that this war was justified by one shell worth of sarin, I would think.
Aright. One sarin filled shell found (applause).
Now they just need to come up with the other several hundred tons and this administration might start to have some credibility.
Oh yeah, and those mobile chem weapons factories in trucks and train cars.
You're being fearmongered. The nuclear material in a nuclear power plant is not the same thing as what you'd use to make a bomb.
Other BT clients will only send to you at a very slow rate if they cannot connect back to you to confirm you're sharing.
The reward you get for sharing is that your download will be like 50 times faster.
I got a copy from a friend, I did not purchase it. But I'm not expecting support. I was simply reporting a bug.
No. I tried googling though. I only reported the bug via their web based bug reporting system.
9.1 is released. The source is out on FTP. Its what this whole slashdot story is about.
My point is that it is not available via FTP right now and won't be anytime soon. The only way to get it is to pay for it or obtain through unofficial means (which is questionable for security reasons).
I don't agree with that. This month here in Ohio some guy on a bike was killed by a car. He was in the middle of the road about to make a left turn just like a car would, only a fast moving car coming up behind him decided cross onto the other side of the road to pass him like you'd usually pass a bike. He would up turning left and the car hit him.
When I have to ride my bike on main roads (which I try to avoid) I always stay as far to the right as possible. If I have to turn left or go to the other side, I stop on the corner and cross with pedestrian traffic.
Drivers seem to get confused when bikes are acting just like cars...
Doing an FTP install is only an option if you can afford to wait a month or two for bugfixes (unless you build everything from source). They aren't releasing the binary RPMs for 9.1 onto their FTP servers until June.
I have 9.0 on my system. YaST2 segfaults every time I try and use the package manager or update portion of it ever since I changed my install path to a local directory. I reported the bug & sent them a backtrace and never got a response, presumably because it is either fixed in 9.1 or they're done with 9.0 now that 9.1 is out.
So you can't rely on an FTP install when the latest version availble via FTP lags a few months behind.
Overall I thought 9.0 was pretty good (albeit kind of buggy). I haven't yet decided wether I will just start shelling out to get 9.1 and subsequent releases or switch to something else. I'm waiting on Fedora core 2 to decide.
Do you have any sources/proof that the UN, France, Germany, Canada, and Russia agreed with the US's estimation of Iraq's WMDs just prior to gulf war II?
Do they say that the Windows XP you're buying with your laptop is crippled before you buy it? Or does it just say "Windows XP"?
Damn right. As we all know, there was no progress in the human race whatsoever before the beginning of patents a few hundred years ago. The human race idly sat in the status quo for thousands of years with no technological advancement whatsoever. Then one day patents were created and we began to advance beyond cave men.
With that kind of track record it is clear that progress will stop of patents ceased to exist.
That's not what hard links are... hard links are indistinguishable from the original file. If you make a hard link, modify the hard link then you'll see the changes in the "original" as well.
A copy on write snapshot does not change when you change the live version of the filesystem.
Is it possible now or in the near future to do an update from 9.0 to 9.1 using just YaST, without downloading new CD images?
Not anytime soon. I've been watching for the RPMS for 9.1 to appear on their server ever since 9.1 was released... First they had a note that said they would be available in a few days (posted April 22), and a few days ago they changed that to say that it would not be available until June.
This is driving me nuts. There are some major bugs in 9.0 that they didn't fix... YaST segfaults whenever I change the install source directory. I'm gonna wind up switching distros... I'm not gonna wait 1.5+ months for bug fixes.
Ohwell, I guess I can't complain... I didn't pay for 9.0 to begin with, and the source code for 9.1 has been available.
I know Datel's GBA for GCN accessory uses a pure software emulator. But if the Game Boy Player accessory also uses a pure software emulator, then how do carts with custom hardware, such as Boktai and bankswitched flash carts, work if the Game Boy Player doesn't already know about them? And why does the manual have warnings about turning off the rumble in Game Boy Color games? And why does the Game Boy Player's motherboard have a chip labeled "CPU AGB" like the GBA's? And how does the older Super Game Boy accessory for Super NES work if the Game Boy's processor is actually faster than that of the Super NES?
Idunno*5. All I can say is that the software for the GB player looks the same as the software in the obviously emulated GB games embedded in GC games. I've never taken the GB player apart to see what is in it, I will have to some time. I guess if there's a CPU then I guess the GB player does run the game in hardware and it isn't an emulator.
The Game Boy Player disc is not an emulator.
No, I do think it is an emulator, because several GC games have gameboy games ebmedded in them (metroid prime and I believe animal crossing) and they have the same interface, same options and works the same and evertyhing as the gameboy player. So I think it is a software emulator because they appear to be using it in other games (which don't have any hardware).
Granted, $60 for $10 worth of A/V adapter parts is pretty obscene
The $60 he's talking about is for the gameboy player for gamecube. It isn't an AV adapter, it is actually a box that hooks up to the cube and allows you to plug GBA cartridges in. They give you a disc for the cube which is a software GBA emulator that'll run the game on the cartridge on the cube. So the game is actually running on the cube so you can use its controllers and you don't have extra cables to run.
At what, 9000 RPM?
You're unhappy with the unstable nature of redhat, and you find SuSE to be better in that respect? I don't follow you there.
I was a long time redhat user like yourself and switched to SuSE 9 a few months ago. But I'm not horribly impressed with it, especially from a stability standpoint. Right after I first installed it, my system would lock up solid every time the screen saver or screen powerdown would kick in (probably something to do with the pre-release Xfree86 they decided to ship). A later update fixed that.
But now I decided to copy all the RPMs to my hard drive so I wouldn't have to juggle the 5 CDs every time I wanted to install something. So I pointed Yast at the location where I'm storing the RPMs... and now YaST segfaults every time I pull up the package management portion of it... haven't seen any updates for this one yet.
I also tried installing the NVidia's nvidia X driver, which is available as an update on YOU. Yast would report success when installing it, but it never actually got installed. I finnally found a log file from the nvidia installer about what was wrong. But YaST just acted like it all worked fine.
And that's just some of the problems I've had. And I'm not running this on funky hardware either. I had RedHat 7.2 on year for over a year and never had a problem. Now I'm thinking of switching back to Fedora. RedHat wasn't exactly Debian stable, but it was never this bad (ok, except for maybe 8).
I don't know about you, but I don't have any moral responsibilities to surrender my rights to my private property to further someone else's interests.
If someone legally sells a copy of something to me, that copy is mine, period. I have no moral qualms whatsoever about modifying property that is mine. If you think it is at all immoral to play DVDs on linux or crack your iTunes songs then you believe that any of the copyright holder's rights trump your rights to your private property.
I think I'll just stick to worrying about my rights and those of like minded people. I'm pretty sure that the media corporations have enough laywers looking out for their rights. They don't need my help, or yours either.
That's a good idea, read the exact definition.
2c is in the past tense. Read the example. It does not override the other definitions.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition would disagree with you:
You might say that you have "Knowledge or information based on real occurrences", the occurrances being events described in the bible. However the only "proof" that Jesus had any supernatural nature was by the few miracles, and that those happened cannot be prooven. Everything else you're expected to accept on faith.
The religious consider it a fact rather than a belief? I'm not following you there. Belief in something with no proof whatsoever requires faith. Faith is the foundation of religion.
You seem to be splitting hairs over my definition of the word 'believe', but that wasn't my point... my point was that in a religion, you accept something on pure faith. You accept the fact that there's no proof of what you're being told and there may never be any proof in your lifetime, but you have faith in it anyway.
I stand corrected. I didn't realize the meaning of that phrase.
That God exists isn't a fact to anyone - not even Christians. It is a belief to them. That's the whole point of any religion. If it were a fact and not a belief then it would be a science and not a religion, and you woulndn't need faith to believe it.
Oh, you're talking about the phrase "under God"!? Yeah, it's pretty clear that that does establish a religion... hmmm... but which religion does it establish?
Christianity. The only religion that refers to its diety as "God" in english (not to be confused with "A god" or "the god" or "god" (no capital G)).
What are the rules of this religion?
They're documented in the bible. Well, the parts of it that modern Christianity adheres to anyway.