I would have loved to at least give it a try, but it requires you to log in using Microsoft Passport! Bad idea! I think many people are not willing to sign up for Passport - even for goodies like this...
Big fucking deal. If you have an account on Hotmail or MSN Messenger you already have this. It's not like Microsoft will hijack your Linux box and install Windows XP Home Edition over it if you sign up. If someone is already willing to try Visual Studio, then I don't understand why they'd be afraid of Passport.
I know we are all about open source here, but honestly.. this has very little to do with Microsoft launching Visual Studio Express. Maybe you should mention how you can code C# in Eclipse. And also mention sharpdevelop or monodevelop. NetBeans, isn't really useful for.Net development as far I know...
It's at least debatable whether he's a troll or not. It's 100% obvious to everyone that you are a troll.
Troll? No.. I made an honest comment on the pointlessness of the repetitive (and recursive) bitching on Slashdot about the same things in every thread (while adding to the bitching myself, yes). Was I nice about it? No.
You'd think people would just quit reading Slashdot if they thought it sucked so bad.
I love how everybody who asks "Why is this important?" gets modded down as a troll.
We get jackasses saying that in EVERY Slashdot thread. Fuck them all and mod them down. We also get fuckers like you complaining about how things are modded in EVERY Slashdot thread. Fuck you, I hope you get modded down because you ARE a troll. Then we get assholes like me, who comment on how much of an asshole you are, adding to the noise. Yep, yep, mod me down, too, but not until you've modded all the other jackasses down.
Hell no. Winamp 5 all the way. Well not quite all the way, if I have to, I'll use Rhythmbox or XMMS when I don't have a Windows box booted up.
Now, I guess I should be complaining that there is no MacAmp. Well, come on Nullsoft, get on it... I plan on buying a Mac some day and I don't want to be stuck using iTunes. And where the hell is Winamp 5 for Linux??!??
Well, with the FM transmitter for the Ipod, it practically becomes a remote. Just tune in on your receiver, and play the songs off your Ipod, no wires necessary, it transmits far enough. Though sound quality isn't as great as a line out.
This is stupid. Let Microsoft waste their money. What are people afraid that these ads are going to scare people away from Linux? If they haven't been scared already, some stupid ad isn't going to change anything.
Oh man, you just opened the floodgates with this one. Prepare to be lectured on why the 37 different packaging standards make software installations easier than with Windows. Of course, the reality of the situation is that it's a crapshoot as to whether or not a package will work with whichever one of the 10,000 Linux distributions you happen to be running (chances are it won't), but hey.
Wrong lecture. The lecture should be from Debian or Gentoo users who say how easy it is to apt-get or emerge packages.
Being a Debian user, I have to say apt is really nice most of the time. But its only as nice as the package repository. There will be issues that the average Joe simply won't be able to deal with, at least with testing/unstable. I have no experience with stable, but I would imagine a pure stable (no backports) should work with no hickups. Too bad its so out of date.
Is this thing better than Gnutella, Kazaa or some other P2P software.
Yes. Shareaza is an example of quality software. It has a slick interface that has good eye candy, yet none of it gets in your way (the UI is very useful) and it is not bloated or slow. I'd like to see the source code for the UI alone. Then it can handle Edonkey2000, Gnutella, Gnutella2, and Bittorrent downloads. And it handles them well. I've always found it to be very stable. Give it a try and see what I'm talking about.
You underclocked your Athlon 1800+?! Turn in your National Geek Association membership card at the door as you leave, sir!;-)
Blah.. Underclocking is completely acceptable for geeks. Most overclockers on the other hand, are the rice boy equivalent for the computer world. Overclocking is hardly even considered geeky. Most geeks, especially professionals, will look down upon overclocking.
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Good god yes. Sometimes I think back and wonder where the hell all the software went. I browsed the internet with Windows 3.1, trumpet Winsock, and Netscape on my 486 DX/66 that had a screaming 16 megs of ram.
Yep.. I did the same on a 486/33 w/ 8 MB of RAM:)
We can't even blame MS - Linux gear is just as bloated.
There is still plenty of Linux software that isn't bloated. The thing I like about Linux is you can get by using only CLI / text-based software if you want to, and its reasonable to do so for many tasks. For Windows, you have to load up a heavyweight GUI to do anything.
I don't know if there's an easiser way, but you can start a seperate X server on another display (e.g. "startx --:1") from her account, and then use CTRL-ALT-F8 to switch to it, and CTRL-ALT-F7 to switch back to yours.
Maybe with a little work, it could be easier (an icon on the desktop?). But if you could teach her to press CTRL-ALT-F8 (or bind that to something else) I think that would be easy enough.
I actually saw somewhere where this guy attached two sets of monitor/keyboard/mouse and had two seperate desktops running from one machine. That required some source code modifications, though.
Macintosh machines are such a small percentage of the personal computer market they're not really an interesting target for virus makers.
Not only that, but because they are a small percentage, it would be difficult for a Mac worm to spread because it would have to try a lot of IP addresses before it found a Mac. Same thing with Linux, though there are a lot of Linux web servers out there.
However, a multiplatform worm would be effective. A worm that could spread between Windows, Linux, OS X, etc. Of course then there would probably be different exploits for each OS. If there was an application that ran on each OS that it could exploit and spread through (e.g. Apache), that would be the ideal for a virus writer.
Release one version with the new contract next year, and one without it sooner? Call it sarge- and sarge+.
You know, unless I missed something, I didn't see anywhere where they said they were going to delay the release of Sarge because of this. They said simply that they wouldn't be able to achieve their goal of implementing this new contract until next year. The delay was inferred by the article submitter.
They should release Sarge as soon as possible. It doesn't matter whether this social contract gets in or not. And it doesn't matter whether Gnome 2.6 gets in or not. We are ready for a new stable release of Debian now.
This isn't like Cygwin. The end result is more like running Linux in a VM (e.g. VMWare). Yes you can run all Linux x86 binaries. It's just like having the real thing installed.
You can even use an actual Linux partition instead of a file, so it could possibly be used in a dual boot machine, where you can run Linux even when you are booted into Windows using the same Linux partition that you boot into. I don't know if anyone has tried this, but I imagine it should work.
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I would have loved to at least give it a try, but it requires you to log in using Microsoft Passport! Bad idea! I think many people are not willing to sign up for Passport - even for goodies like this...
Big fucking deal. If you have an account on Hotmail or MSN Messenger you already have this. It's not like Microsoft will hijack your Linux box and install Windows XP Home Edition over it if you sign up. If someone is already willing to try Visual Studio, then I don't understand why they'd be afraid of Passport.
you visit the Eclipse and NetBeans sites.
.Net development as far I know...
I know we are all about open source here, but honestly.. this has very little to do with Microsoft launching Visual Studio Express. Maybe you should mention how you can code C# in Eclipse. And also mention sharpdevelop or monodevelop. NetBeans, isn't really useful for
I'm planning to create 100 1GB accounts, and then back up my hard drive by e-mailing it to all these accounts.
It's at least debatable whether he's a troll or not. It's 100% obvious to everyone that you are a troll.
Troll? No.. I made an honest comment on the pointlessness of the repetitive (and recursive) bitching on Slashdot about the same things in every thread (while adding to the bitching myself, yes). Was I nice about it? No.
You'd think people would just quit reading Slashdot if they thought it sucked so bad.
OSX has a command line. It's just well hidden.
Exactly my point. It's there, but you don't need to use it.
I love how everybody who asks "Why is this important?" gets modded down as a troll.
We get jackasses saying that in EVERY Slashdot thread. Fuck them all and mod them down. We also get fuckers like you complaining about how things are modded in EVERY Slashdot thread. Fuck you, I hope you get modded down because you ARE a troll. Then we get assholes like me, who comment on how much of an asshole you are, adding to the noise. Yep, yep, mod me down, too, but not until you've modded all the other jackasses down.
Abandon a piece of Unix tradition. Namely the importance of commandline. Why?
So basically, just clone OS X and call it a day?
Do you use iTunes for Windows?
Hell no. Winamp 5 all the way. Well not quite all the way, if I have to, I'll use Rhythmbox or XMMS when I don't have a Windows box booted up.
Now, I guess I should be complaining that there is no MacAmp. Well, come on Nullsoft, get on it... I plan on buying a Mac some day and I don't want to be stuck using iTunes. And where the hell is Winamp 5 for Linux??!??
Well, with the FM transmitter for the Ipod, it practically becomes a remote. Just tune in on your receiver, and play the songs off your Ipod, no wires necessary, it transmits far enough. Though sound quality isn't as great as a line out.
You have not checked in a while. It's $92 on Newegg
I just saw Linksys WRT54G on Amazon.com for $66 after a $10 rebate.
Now my question is is why do people slam Apple for creating products that only work with their products?
Ummm, duh.. Because we'd like to use the products, too.
PHD = Pimpin' Hoes Degree
Get Quicktime Alternative. You'll never have to use Apple's piece of shit player ever again.
There is also a Real Alternative..
YELLING!!!
Call me crazy, but I HOLD DOWN SHIFT for YELLING!!!
This is stupid. Let Microsoft waste their money. What are people afraid that these ads are going to scare people away from Linux? If they haven't been scared already, some stupid ad isn't going to change anything.
Oh man, you just opened the floodgates with this one. Prepare to be lectured on why the 37 different packaging standards make software installations easier than with Windows. Of course, the reality of the situation is that it's a crapshoot as to whether or not a package will work with whichever one of the 10,000 Linux distributions you happen to be running (chances are it won't), but hey.
Wrong lecture. The lecture should be from Debian or Gentoo users who say how easy it is to apt-get or emerge packages.
Being a Debian user, I have to say apt is really nice most of the time. But its only as nice as the package repository. There will be issues that the average Joe simply won't be able to deal with, at least with testing/unstable. I have no experience with stable, but I would imagine a pure stable (no backports) should work with no hickups. Too bad its so out of date.
Is this thing better than Gnutella, Kazaa or some other P2P software.
Yes. Shareaza is an example of quality software. It has a slick interface that has good eye candy, yet none of it gets in your way (the UI is very useful) and it is not bloated or slow. I'd like to see the source code for the UI alone. Then it can handle Edonkey2000, Gnutella, Gnutella2, and Bittorrent downloads. And it handles them well. I've always found it to be very stable. Give it a try and see what I'm talking about.
The fact that this app is now GPL is great news.
You underclocked your Athlon 1800+?! ;-)
Turn in your National Geek Association membership card at the door as you leave, sir!
Blah.. Underclocking is completely acceptable for geeks. Most overclockers on the other hand, are the rice boy equivalent for the computer world. Overclocking is hardly even considered geeky. Most geeks, especially professionals, will look down upon overclocking.
Good god yes. Sometimes I think back and wonder where the hell all the software went. I browsed the internet with Windows 3.1, trumpet Winsock, and Netscape on my 486 DX/66 that had a screaming 16 megs of ram.
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Yep.. I did the same on a 486/33 w/ 8 MB of RAM
We can't even blame MS - Linux gear is just as bloated.
There is still plenty of Linux software that isn't bloated. The thing I like about Linux is you can get by using only CLI / text-based software if you want to, and its reasonable to do so for many tasks. For Windows, you have to load up a heavyweight GUI to do anything.
is welcome to write browser extensions to achieve all this stuff.
How about just emulating OS X instead?
I don't know if there's an easiser way, but you can start a seperate X server on another display (e.g. "startx -- :1") from her account, and then use CTRL-ALT-F8 to switch to it, and CTRL-ALT-F7 to switch back to yours.
Maybe with a little work, it could be easier (an icon on the desktop?). But if you could teach her to press CTRL-ALT-F8 (or bind that to something else) I think that would be easy enough.
I actually saw somewhere where this guy attached two sets of monitor/keyboard/mouse and had two seperate desktops running from one machine. That required some source code modifications, though.
Macintosh machines are such a small percentage of the personal computer market they're not really an interesting target for virus makers.
Not only that, but because they are a small percentage, it would be difficult for a Mac worm to spread because it would have to try a lot of IP addresses before it found a Mac. Same thing with Linux, though there are a lot of Linux web servers out there.
However, a multiplatform worm would be effective. A worm that could spread between Windows, Linux, OS X, etc. Of course then there would probably be different exploits for each OS. If there was an application that ran on each OS that it could exploit and spread through (e.g. Apache), that would be the ideal for a virus writer.
Release one version with the new contract next year, and one without it sooner? Call it sarge- and sarge+.
You know, unless I missed something, I didn't see anywhere where they said they were going to delay the release of Sarge because of this. They said simply that they wouldn't be able to achieve their goal of implementing this new contract until next year. The delay was inferred by the article submitter.
They should release Sarge as soon as possible. It doesn't matter whether this social contract gets in or not. And it doesn't matter whether Gnome 2.6 gets in or not. We are ready for a new stable release of Debian now.
This isn't like Cygwin. The end result is more like running Linux in a VM (e.g. VMWare). Yes you can run all Linux x86 binaries. It's just like having the real thing installed.
You can even use an actual Linux partition instead of a file, so it could possibly be used in a dual boot machine, where you can run Linux even when you are booted into Windows using the same Linux partition that you boot into. I don't know if anyone has tried this, but I imagine it should work.