Now, can we please drop this annoying trend? This whole "SCO must give permission" thing is just as bad as Natalie Portman, the underpants/internet services/crackwhore gnomes or Soviet Russia jokes.
Can't we all just make bad Home Star Runner jokes and leave it at that?
I get all my Red Hat discs from Linux Central. Costs me £9 for all three RH 8 discs, I get them delivered really quickly (quicker than estimated-even from US to UK) and they haven't failed once.
Boxed never crossed my mind. There's not much I'd want. I don't need a printed manual, for I can pick up documentation from Red Hat's site FOR FREE, NO HASSLE and ON DEMAND. I can get all my plugins absolutely fine, I don't need the non-free disc. Hell, I haven't taken out my discs since I installed this box, cos I use apt-get for RPM. Paying a lot more so I can have a nice shiny box which I'll never open isn't high on my list of priorities.
Also, Student Desktops are selling RH8.0 preloaded PCs for £300, with monitor. Who needs boxed when you can get kickass cheap preloaded systems like this? (Thus, I no longer need to imagine my Beowulf Cluster! It shall be mine, all mine...bwahahahahaha!)
RH will always be my distro of choice, since I like the way it works and I can tweak it endlessly. Right now, I'm running on RH8 with a source-built KDE 3.1.2 and I'm compiling MySQL. And I haven't seen a problem anywhere. Beat that.
- Pages with Flash will, in worst cases, crash or hang your browser.
- Netscape will hang if a Flash plugin tries to play audio and the audio device is already in use - Flash may crash with Exported X Display - Java is not included with the Linux installer for Netscape 7.1. Download Java version 1.4.2 or later at the Java web site - You may encounter problems if you install Netscape in a root user environment then run as another user. - Loading a page that contains a Flash plugin may cause Netscape to lock up if you are using an audio application.
My god! What an awful lot of code that is!!!! That 80 lines took five minutes of developers precious time! It's theft! Treason, even! Hang them! Hang them all!
Seriously, if it's 80 lines out of many thousands that they're worried about, they must be either crazy, or have a major inferiority complex...
This reminds me of the old disclaimer that came with Windows 95 and up that the software shouldn't be used in situations where lack of stability would mean megadeaths (i.e nuclear facilities).
I had a PC case made of cardboard. I cut a hole in a cardboard box for the power switch and LEDs to poke through, then shoved in a mobo. It worked as well! Even though it did smell like smoke from a steam train after about 5 mins...
BUT I DID IT!!!
Oh and there was VIAs PC in a box, as well...this ain't new.
Fuck that, The Nuclear Control Institute and The Mayak gave me nervous breakdowns that no game can match. Though actually, Realms of the Haunting, had strange squeaking knife throwing things that drove me NUTS...
Yes it should be automated to install software, especially in the case of Java. Anybody wanting to run LimeWire has to download a 20MB file, then mess around in a terminal. Not good. Though Synaptic is close to full automation....
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Mozilla bucks the trend.
Whereas emacs expanded until it could send email, Mozilla will expand until it is emacs.
Still, if your plugin becomes reality, well, I can imagine Mozillas market share climbing from 1% or so to, like 99%.
NO.
Now, can we please drop this annoying trend? This whole "SCO must give permission" thing is just as bad as Natalie Portman, the underpants/internet services/crackwhore gnomes or Soviet Russia jokes.
Can't we all just make bad Home Star Runner jokes and leave it at that?
I get all my Red Hat discs from Linux Central. Costs me £9 for all three RH 8 discs, I get them delivered really quickly (quicker than estimated-even from US to UK) and they haven't failed once.
Boxed never crossed my mind. There's not much I'd want. I don't need a printed manual, for I can pick up documentation from Red Hat's site FOR FREE, NO HASSLE and ON DEMAND. I can get all my plugins absolutely fine, I don't need the non-free disc. Hell, I haven't taken out my discs since I installed this box, cos I use apt-get for RPM. Paying a lot more so I can have a nice shiny box which I'll never open isn't high on my list of priorities.
Also, Student Desktops are selling RH8.0 preloaded PCs for £300, with monitor. Who needs boxed when you can get kickass cheap preloaded systems like this? (Thus, I no longer need to imagine my Beowulf Cluster! It shall be mine, all mine...bwahahahahaha!)
RH will always be my distro of choice, since I like the way it works and I can tweak it endlessly. Right now, I'm running on RH8 with a source-built KDE 3.1.2 and I'm compiling MySQL. And I haven't seen a problem anywhere. Beat that.
In Soviet Russia, joke screws up you!
Homestar Runner as a human right!
Slashdot as a human right!
goatse links as a human right!
Actually, scrub that last one.
meow.org.UK?
So that's what that mushroom cloud was...
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
There are people who still use it, y'know. Like me. I just got rid of Mozilla, it was clunky nasty and a US Standard Issue pain in the ass.
Netscape is a fantastic browser, mainly due to it not looking crappy, being great under XP and being supported by the great majority of people.
Netscape 7.0 r0x0rs j00r b0x0rs!!!
Young nerd: Ack! I'm blind!
My god! What an awful lot of code that is!!!! That 80 lines took five minutes of developers precious time! It's theft! Treason, even! Hang them! Hang them all!
Seriously, if it's 80 lines out of many thousands that they're worried about, they must be either crazy, or have a major inferiority complex...
Oh wait! They're BOTH!
This whole SCO affair is best representated as a game of Sid Meiers Civilization.
1: The main protagonist is holding back information that you could use to nuke the shit out of their entire military operations with.
2: The bands of Linux users that are up in arms are the partisans. They do jack shit, other than make mountains out of anthills.
3: Linus is the guy who, while being allied to just about everyone, has a sneak attack from one rogue state. All out war starts (possibly).
See! First to build successful spaceship wins the lawsuit! Hurrah!
This is your brain.
This is Microsoft.
This is your brain on Microsoft.
By The Partnership for a Bill Free America.
This reminds me of the old disclaimer that came with Windows 95 and up that the software shouldn't be used in situations where lack of stability would mean megadeaths (i.e nuclear facilities).
So THAT'S the real cause of Chernobyl! Microsoft!
I think we should all GET a life.
The Jurassic Park thing was a UNIX system. It was running fsn (the file system navigator, but pronounced fusion) on an SGI box.
Ha! The program is downloadable at SGIs site, methinks.
That would probably please the general audience.
Models?
I thought there was just the one:
1: Write open source software
1a: Patent OS business model
2: ?
3: PROFIT!!!
I had a PC case made of cardboard. I cut a hole in a cardboard box for the power switch and LEDs to poke through, then shoved in a mobo. It worked as well! Even though it did smell like smoke from a steam train after about 5 mins...
BUT I DID IT!!!
Oh and there was VIAs PC in a box, as well...this ain't new.
"You shouldn't have to be a programmer to get Real player or java to work."
Indeed, KDE-a DE with a very large user base, if not the largest, won't work AT ALL with RealPlayer in my experience....
Fuck that, The Nuclear Control Institute and The Mayak gave me nervous breakdowns that no game can match. Though actually, Realms of the Haunting, had strange squeaking knife throwing things that drove me NUTS...
But still, those sites made me fail my exams >:(
Yes it should be automated to install software, especially in the case of Java. Anybody wanting to run LimeWire has to download a 20MB file, then mess around in a terminal. Not good. Though Synaptic is close to full automation....
Let's not forget Sunshine and Lollipops over here. RADIATION IS BAD BAD BAD!!!!
That's the noise of my head banging against my desk. D*U*P*E!
I thought this meant that Jeff Bezos was being shot (like out of a cannon) in the general direction of space...doh...
I know...
"Britains Sexiest Nurses" was fun though...
Actually, Granada will be the heirs to the ITV throne-they own around 80% of the network already, and they will own 70% of the merged C&G.
Carlton generally are better than Granada in every respect. I mean, look at those idents. LOOK AT THEM!!!! The News ident is a masterpiece...