Censorship? In the 21st century with all the communications and the Internet? I guess not. The Chinese gov't can swim upstream if they want to but it's pretty silly anyways.
This is great news. Maybe it will lead to more people to using Jabber. I'm very happy with Jabber IM. There are a lot of clients to pick from, several servers, and best of all most of them are free. Good implementations also.
Well I tried the ORSC root and the root zone thingie, but the first is less reliable than the icann root and the local root zone requires that you get the root zone every week or so.
DJBDNS is pretty cool but has its limitations. I use it on most of my nameservers. PowerDNS is pretty cool too and has very nice fetures.
...are the electircal engineer's wet dream. If this research really materializes in some technology and real world aplications, not only would it make our engineer's lives easier (no resitance, less heat, less heat radiating surface, more powerful and energy efficient motors) but also benefit society as a whole (less emissions). Unless they patent it the next day and require six figure licensing fees.
Freedom for the glowing fishies!
I might be getting some of those now that they're illegal.
War on drugs. War on terror. What's next? War on glowing pets?
Haven't you been reading the news? There is a new Amiga box out from some UK company. Also, the Pegasos boxes can run Amiga apps under MorphOS. So stop trolling. If there are people still making software for a dead platform and companies releaseing "dead" hardware then it isn't dead.
I'm not blaming anyone, I've used Debian for more than a year and I think it;s great. I was just pointing out that the release cycle is huge compared to how fast packages get outdated and that testing and unstable are not solutions on production environments.
Well counterfeiters will use something other than Photoshop or will use Photoshop 8. As there aren't enough raster graphics programs out there. This isn't going to stop crooks so I guess it's a useless measure. Making money counterfeit proof is the answer. They wasted precious programmer hours to do it and the final costs are also supported by the people who actually buy Photoshop. So I suppose this is how Adobe is cutting down costs. They failed to make any new innovations and this is what they do to justify a new version. A friend who's a graphics artist told me Photoshop CS is exactly the same as Photoshop 7, save the version number increment.
Or maybe concentrate on releasing their distribution more often. This is the primary reason I don't use Debian. I'm not ok with testing and unstable, I ended up having 3 pythons, 2 gccs in a Debian/testing installation because of some dependencies.
> David Fester has suggested that iTunes' emerging dominance would be bad for consumers
And I suppose MS market dominance is good for consumers, right? You can't have'em all Microsoft! Apple took the risk and launched the iTunes service before you did and now that it became somewhat successful you're all pissed that it weren't MS, right?
Why not use Darwin or NetBSD instead? Granted, MacOS X is nice but you can also use the free alternatives. An not all PowerPC based computers are Macs.
I seriously have to agree with the iptables vs pf issue. Actually iptables vs other filters, because every single packet filter I saw (Cisco, ipfilter, ipfw, pf) and worked with was saner than iptables. I like pf the most and I hope it will be integrated in FreeBSD (maybe replace ipfilter with pf). Nevertheless, I wish someone would write a saner interface to netfilter, instead of writing useless frontends that obfuscate the ruleset and generate worse rules. But that won't happen and even if it will it won't be soon.
I switched my servers to FreeBSD and I find it really simple to manage, update, upgrade. I'm not going into cvsup and ports tree details. It just works, it hasn't crashed once and I've had no problems with it. I also tried OpenBSD but I didn't like it as much.
Anyway, I've heard success sotries about FreeBSD on the desktop as well, but I'm currently running Linux (Slackware 9.1) on my desktop. Mostly bewcause I don't want to lose contact with Linux, not because FreeBSD wouldn't make a good desktop.
There is a sourceforge project that aims to continue Speak Freely development. Here is their webpage. This project's succes totally depends on finding enough volunteers to do the work, so maybe it's time to do something if you like this project.
Well the old file selector pretty much sucks and it hasn't been changed since GTK1.x series. The most annoying thing about it is that you can't see.dot files and directories (the ones in your $HOME for instance) unless you know they exist and type thieir name in the "Selection" field. I hope the new file selector (the mockups look pretty cool btw) will have an option to show listings with dot files.
Yes and the files selector was a thing people bitched about all the time when the GNOME vs KDE issue came into discussion.
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Censorship? In the 21st century with all the communications and the Internet? I guess not. The Chinese gov't can swim upstream if they want to but it's pretty silly anyways.
This is great news. Maybe it will lead to more people to using Jabber. I'm very happy with Jabber IM. There are a lot of clients to pick from, several servers, and best of all most of them are free. Good implementations also.
...are like jackals feeding on corpses.
I doubt any Linux zealots wrote the worm. They prefer to start flame wars on Slashdot and IRC channels rather than write worms which DDoS www.sco.com.
Well I tried the ORSC root and the root zone thingie, but the first is less reliable than the icann root and the local root zone requires that you get the root zone every week or so.
DJBDNS is pretty cool but has its limitations. I use it on most of my nameservers. PowerDNS is pretty cool too and has very nice fetures.
...are the electircal engineer's wet dream. If this research really materializes in some technology and real world aplications, not only would it make our engineer's lives easier (no resitance, less heat, less heat radiating surface, more powerful and energy efficient motors) but also benefit society as a whole (less emissions). Unless they patent it the next day and require six figure licensing fees.
On the other hand potassium is *very* reactive.
Then I might burn my own CDs from files downloaded over P2P instead of buying from the labels. And they claim pirating music is illegal?
I won't be suprised if Bush wins again with as little as +0.0001% votes in the 2004 elections.
Freedom for the glowing fishies! I might be getting some of those now that they're illegal. War on drugs. War on terror. What's next? War on glowing pets?
Haven't you been reading the news? There is a new Amiga box out from some UK company. Also, the Pegasos boxes can run Amiga apps under MorphOS. So stop trolling. If there are people still making software for a dead platform and companies releaseing "dead" hardware then it isn't dead.
I'm not blaming anyone, I've used Debian for more than a year and I think it;s great. I was just pointing out that the release cycle is huge compared to how fast packages get outdated and that testing and unstable are not solutions on production environments.
Well counterfeiters will use something other than Photoshop or will use Photoshop 8. As there aren't enough raster graphics programs out there. This isn't going to stop crooks so I guess it's a useless measure. Making money counterfeit proof is the answer. They wasted precious programmer hours to do it and the final costs are also supported by the people who actually buy Photoshop. So I suppose this is how Adobe is cutting down costs. They failed to make any new innovations and this is what they do to justify a new version. A friend who's a graphics artist told me Photoshop CS is exactly the same as Photoshop 7, save the version number increment.
Or maybe concentrate on releasing their distribution more often. This is the primary reason I don't use Debian. I'm not ok with testing and unstable, I ended up having 3 pythons, 2 gccs in a Debian/testing installation because of some dependencies.
SCO creating a trend here? Well they're asking for a lawsuit from the FSF. Does the FSF sue people in Denmark as well?
> David Fester has suggested that iTunes' emerging dominance would be bad for consumers
And I suppose MS market dominance is good for consumers, right? You can't have'em all Microsoft! Apple took the risk and launched the iTunes service before you did and now that it became somewhat successful you're all pissed that it weren't MS, right?
Why not use Darwin or NetBSD instead? Granted, MacOS X is nice but you can also use the free alternatives. An not all PowerPC based computers are Macs.
I seriously have to agree with the iptables vs pf issue. Actually iptables vs other filters, because every single packet filter I saw (Cisco, ipfilter, ipfw, pf) and worked with was saner than iptables. I like pf the most and I hope it will be integrated in FreeBSD (maybe replace ipfilter with pf). Nevertheless, I wish someone would write a saner interface to netfilter, instead of writing useless frontends that obfuscate the ruleset and generate worse rules. But that won't happen and even if it will it won't be soon.
I switched my servers to FreeBSD and I find it really simple to manage, update, upgrade. I'm not going into cvsup and ports tree details. It just works, it hasn't crashed once and I've had no problems with it. I also tried OpenBSD but I didn't like it as much.
Anyway, I've heard success sotries about FreeBSD on the desktop as well, but I'm currently running Linux (Slackware 9.1) on my desktop. Mostly bewcause I don't want to lose contact with Linux, not because FreeBSD wouldn't make a good desktop.
There is a sourceforge project that aims to continue Speak Freely development. Here is their webpage. This project's succes totally depends on finding enough volunteers to do the work, so maybe it's time to do something if you like this project.
At least they're going to read themselves of viruses and the associated costs (virus scanners, etc.).
The matrox framebuffer patch renders 2.6.0 uncompilable for me.
I know it's perfectly legat to sell gimp but what about the licenses? 3 user license? Site license?
What if I decide to release my own binary build and sell an unlimited license for $24? I guess MacGIMP will be out of business.
Gimp is GPL. Why the order form? 3 user pack? Site license? Does it come bundled with proprietary software?
Why are they so ugly? The flash memory based models from iRiver look way better. As does the iPod but that's another story.
Well the old file selector pretty much sucks and it hasn't been changed since GTK1.x series. The most annoying thing about it is that you can't see .dot files and directories (the ones in your $HOME for instance) unless you know they exist and type thieir name in the "Selection" field. I hope the new file selector (the mockups look pretty cool btw) will have an option to show listings with dot files.
Yes and the files selector was a thing people bitched about all the time when the GNOME vs KDE issue came into discussion.