I don't know what you did to tweak X, but it's a huge fucking resource hog every time I try it.
apt-get install xbase-clients
Integrated how? I can copy/paste anywhere, and set various programs to handle various file types. I think that the dropdown that lets me choose my default email program (ANY email program) that handles what happens when I click an email link is pretty damn integrated.
The "file types and programs" menu entry in Gnome does a pretty good job for me, but yeah, a freedesktop.org standard on this shared between Gnome/KDE/Xfce/whatever would be a better idea.
Last Red Hat install I tried (7.x), the hard drive never stopped swapping. Click... wait, wait, wait... window opened. It was a nightmare. Installed W2K on the box, and there wasn't nearly as much swapping. I don't know what you did to tweak X, but it's a huge fucking resource hog every time I try it.
There's your problem, Red Hat is a squirming mass of dog shit. You don't see me complaining about how unstable Windows is because I installed Windows ME instead of Windows 2000/XP, do you?
Given the number of government agencies adopting Linux I feel that many companies will have to take notice and provide drivers.
Or, just leave it to the community to do what they do best: provide drivers that are more efficient and more stable than anything some random company would halfheartedly put out in an attempt to win over a few thousand more sales.
Also, Debian's got to use modern packages by default, a lot of Linux advocate Debian and it turns off users to see Xfree86 4.1, KDE 2.2. Come on, thats freaking Mandrake 8.1!
Debian is not a beginner's distribution, so the idea of "sensible defaults" does not apply here as it would in other places. Should you desire newer packages, it's a very trivial matter to add unstable sources to your sources.list.
I can't think of an easier way to install applications than apt-get or emerge. Can you?
Windows applications aren't integrated very well either, unless you're referring to how Outlook starts up Windows Messenger every time I open it, pissing me off to no end.
X can drag an 800x600 window around a 1280x1024 desktop without flinching, where it maxes the CPU on Windows. Even though the GDI functions are integrated into the kernel on Windows, it still loses out here.
I think it is a people problem, and people are finally starting to wise up and recognize that there are alternatives. Linux is popular enough now where a friend of mine, who, while computer literate, is not a technophile by any stretch, saw my Gnome desktop for the first time since my computer had been switched to Windows. His reaction? "Oh, is that Linux?" I didn't think Joe User had heard of Linux. I was mistaken.
He was quite impressed with Gentoo's speed and the ease of use of my system (Gnome, Gaim, Totem, AbiWord, Evolution, etc.). He uses his computer for gaming mostly, so I don't see him switching from Windows anytime soon, but he seemed fairly impressed at my framerates in Enemy Territory, and even more so at the fact that I hadn't paid a dime for a damned piece of software running on my computer.
Lots of people who do know of Linux don't realize how far Linux has come. Back in the summer of 2002, when Gnome 1.4 and KDE 2 were the norm as far as desktop environments went, I thought to myself, "Linux is pretty cool, but I don't think it will be ready for the desktop for another three or four years." Now, using Gnome 2.4 and GTK2 apps, I am astonished at how much the open-source community has been able to accomplish.
I think Linux is ready for the desktop right now. I think if computers were sold with Linux, for hundreds cheaper than comparable Windows PCs, people would start using it. And if not, maybe it would put some pressure on Microsoft to drop prices and stop making shitty products.
And pay up Mozilla Foundation, and pay up KDE e.V, pay up Apple, and pay up Opera Software. This ruling is dangerous and has ramifications reaching far outside of Microsoft's boundaries. Internet Explorer is certainly not the only browser to make use of plugins.
I, for one, (haha! not going to say it!) despise Flash and similar plugins, but this is one of many patent lawsuits that could dramatically alter the landscape of the software development community as a whole.
This is where you are mistaken. Unix was for servers and workstations. This was never the goal of Linux. Linux was created in order to have a free desktop Unix-like operating system. I still say that BSD is a better choice for a server environment.
Furthermore, no one's saying that you have to use this, should it be completed. You can have speed if you want it, or stability if you value that more -- that's the beauty of open software built on open standards. If something's not doing what you need it to, you can gut it out and replace it with something more adequate. If this isn't working 100% to spec, rm -r/usr/X11R6 and install XFree instead.
For the record, my system runs its Gentoo install much faster (bloated Gnome GUI and all) than its stripped-down Windows counterpart with Litestep/Salamander replacing Explorer.
I hope this is satire. This is silly (stupid?) and would be akin to me having a site policy at the bottom of my website that says "LOL IF U VISIT THIS SITE U OWE ME 5HUNDRED BUX."
If a user does not consciously agree to a contract, it is not binding. Period.
I read the article, I didn't read the post I replied to very well at all. I should probably get some sleep. Thanks for the slap back into consciousness.
The difference here is that the RIAA's member companies authorized the songs' use for essentially any conceivable use by the RIAA, which is, by all definitions, a trade union (though, in this sense, it's more of a euphemism for "oligopoly," but I digress). Mind you, the copyrights belong entirely to the labels, and not to the artists themselves.
Especially considering how Michael Moore is one of the most sensationalistic "filmmakers" ever. This is, of course, when he's not flat-out trying to deceive his audience to further his agendas.
This isn't to say that he's wrong, but his attitude is a discredit to his message.
I don't think it's fair to say that "OSS creates all manner of bad software because anyone can code something up and release it" because they're perfectly capable of doing that without giving you the source too. At least here we have the ability to see the problems and avoid that software rather than taking the author's word that it's SUPAR 1337, which is much better than finding out much too late that our new IP tunneling solution that we've deployed on a 10,000-machine corporate network needs to be replaced with something else, like some people probably discovered with the PPTP issue.
Like is highlighted in the article, these problems with "dodgy" software tend to arise when the author decides to reinvent the wheel, but neglects the tire and the axle grease.
Everyone wants to make a name for themselves by being the next Richard Stallman, rather than working on the established products with comprehensive peer review and years of code history. Why write new protocols that are doing the same thing that SSH is doing? It's nonsensical.
There's usually very little real reason to create these abominations. If an existing project doesn't have a feature you want and you're capable of coding it, for God's sake, code it to work with the existing product. I'm willing to bet that the guys behind these protocols got flat-out laughed at by anyone doing real cryptography work, but still somehow felt that they were right all along.
Someone a few months ago mentioned to me that Sendmail has a feature where, upon receiving mail, it will check the domain of the sender. If the domain does not exist, it has a forged From: header and is obviously spam.
Thanks to Verisign's efforts to piss me off, every DNS query on a nonexistant.com domain or.net domain is returning an SOA record and none of these messages are being blocked.
Since this "service" has been implemented, I've gone from 7-8 spams a day to 30-35.
This is assuming they don't say "this bug can't be fixed without multiple architectural changes to the underlying OS, just have your firewall block all packets on this port kthxbye [slams door]."
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apt-get install xbase-clients
The "file types and programs" menu entry in Gnome does a pretty good job for me, but yeah, a freedesktop.org standard on this shared between Gnome/KDE/Xfce/whatever would be a better idea.
There's your problem, Red Hat is a squirming mass of dog shit. You don't see me complaining about how unstable Windows is because I installed Windows ME instead of Windows 2000/XP, do you?
Debian is not a beginner's distribution, so the idea of "sensible defaults" does not apply here as it would in other places. Should you desire newer packages, it's a very trivial matter to add unstable sources to your sources.list.
I can't think of an easier way to install applications than apt-get or emerge. Can you?
Windows applications aren't integrated very well either, unless you're referring to how Outlook starts up Windows Messenger every time I open it, pissing me off to no end.
X can drag an 800x600 window around a 1280x1024 desktop without flinching, where it maxes the CPU on Windows. Even though the GDI functions are integrated into the kernel on Windows, it still loses out here.
I don't see the validity of any of your points.
This is by no means terrific, but would certainly beat the shit out of that eMac. And for less money, even without the rebate.
I think it is a people problem, and people are finally starting to wise up and recognize that there are alternatives. Linux is popular enough now where a friend of mine, who, while computer literate, is not a technophile by any stretch, saw my Gnome desktop for the first time since my computer had been switched to Windows. His reaction? "Oh, is that Linux?" I didn't think Joe User had heard of Linux. I was mistaken.
He was quite impressed with Gentoo's speed and the ease of use of my system (Gnome, Gaim, Totem, AbiWord, Evolution, etc.). He uses his computer for gaming mostly, so I don't see him switching from Windows anytime soon, but he seemed fairly impressed at my framerates in Enemy Territory, and even more so at the fact that I hadn't paid a dime for a damned piece of software running on my computer.
Lots of people who do know of Linux don't realize how far Linux has come. Back in the summer of 2002, when Gnome 1.4 and KDE 2 were the norm as far as desktop environments went, I thought to myself, "Linux is pretty cool, but I don't think it will be ready for the desktop for another three or four years." Now, using Gnome 2.4 and GTK2 apps, I am astonished at how much the open-source community has been able to accomplish.
I think Linux is ready for the desktop right now. I think if computers were sold with Linux, for hundreds cheaper than comparable Windows PCs, people would start using it. And if not, maybe it would put some pressure on Microsoft to drop prices and stop making shitty products.
Athlon XP 2500+ system: $600, if that.
I fail to see where you're going with this.
Can't wait for them to get listed for their grenade logo.
There's mad lib generators that already do, if this is a top writer.
Of course, he probably isn't.
Of course not! Even in jest, that's a ridiculous suggestion.
The computers will engineer humans to play chess with.
And pay up Mozilla Foundation, and pay up KDE e.V, pay up Apple, and pay up Opera Software. This ruling is dangerous and has ramifications reaching far outside of Microsoft's boundaries. Internet Explorer is certainly not the only browser to make use of plugins.
I, for one, (haha! not going to say it!) despise Flash and similar plugins, but this is one of many patent lawsuits that could dramatically alter the landscape of the software development community as a whole.
This is where you are mistaken. Unix was for servers and workstations. This was never the goal of Linux. Linux was created in order to have a free desktop Unix-like operating system. I still say that BSD is a better choice for a server environment.
/usr/X11R6 and install XFree instead.
Furthermore, no one's saying that you have to use this, should it be completed. You can have speed if you want it, or stability if you value that more -- that's the beauty of open software built on open standards. If something's not doing what you need it to, you can gut it out and replace it with something more adequate. If this isn't working 100% to spec, rm -r
For the record, my system runs its Gentoo install much faster (bloated Gnome GUI and all) than its stripped-down Windows counterpart with Litestep/Salamander replacing Explorer.
That'll teach them to listen to Limp Bizkit.
So do elitists who insist that Linux is only for a small cadre of geeks who are smart enough to use it.
And we wonder why Microsoft still owns all the desktops?
I hope this is satire. This is silly (stupid?) and would be akin to me having a site policy at the bottom of my website that says "LOL IF U VISIT THIS SITE U OWE ME 5HUNDRED BUX."
If a user does not consciously agree to a contract, it is not binding. Period.
...at the bottom of the stairs.
I misread this as Stephen Colbert, of The Daily Show fame. Luckily this is not the case.
I read the article, I didn't read the post I replied to very well at all. I should probably get some sleep. Thanks for the slap back into consciousness.
The difference here is that the RIAA's member companies authorized the songs' use for essentially any conceivable use by the RIAA, which is, by all definitions, a trade union (though, in this sense, it's more of a euphemism for "oligopoly," but I digress). Mind you, the copyrights belong entirely to the labels, and not to the artists themselves.
Especially considering how Michael Moore is one of the most sensationalistic "filmmakers" ever. This is, of course, when he's not flat-out trying to deceive his audience to further his agendas.
This isn't to say that he's wrong, but his attitude is a discredit to his message.
I don't think it's fair to say that "OSS creates all manner of bad software because anyone can code something up and release it" because they're perfectly capable of doing that without giving you the source too. At least here we have the ability to see the problems and avoid that software rather than taking the author's word that it's SUPAR 1337, which is much better than finding out much too late that our new IP tunneling solution that we've deployed on a 10,000-machine corporate network needs to be replaced with something else, like some people probably discovered with the PPTP issue.
Like is highlighted in the article, these problems with "dodgy" software tend to arise when the author decides to reinvent the wheel, but neglects the tire and the axle grease.
Everyone wants to make a name for themselves by being the next Richard Stallman, rather than working on the established products with comprehensive peer review and years of code history. Why write new protocols that are doing the same thing that SSH is doing? It's nonsensical.
There's usually very little real reason to create these abominations. If an existing project doesn't have a feature you want and you're capable of coding it, for God's sake, code it to work with the existing product. I'm willing to bet that the guys behind these protocols got flat-out laughed at by anyone doing real cryptography work, but still somehow felt that they were right all along.
Going to NASCAR races for the cars going in circles is like going to NHL games for the clean, friendly sportsmanship.
I truly thank VeriSign's lovely spam service.
.com domain or .net domain is returning an SOA record and none of these messages are being blocked.
Someone a few months ago mentioned to me that Sendmail has a feature where, upon receiving mail, it will check the domain of the sender. If the domain does not exist, it has a forged From: header and is obviously spam.
Thanks to Verisign's efforts to piss me off, every DNS query on a nonexistant
Since this "service" has been implemented, I've gone from 7-8 spams a day to 30-35.
Thanks a lot, assholes.
1. Post "Slashdotter #1" and "Slashdotter #2" comments
2. ???
3. Get modded +3, Funny!
This is assuming they don't say "this bug can't be fixed without multiple architectural changes to the underlying OS, just have your firewall block all packets on this port kthxbye [slams door]."